I am currently reading The Master and His Emissary , which appears to be an excellent book. ("Appears" because I don't know the neuroscience literature well enough to say for sure, yet.) But then on page 186 I find: "Asking cognition, however, to give a perspective on the relationship between cognition and affect is like asking astronomer in the pre-Galilean geocentric world, whether, in his opinion, the sun moves round the earth of the earth around the sun. To ask a question alone would be enough to label one as mad." OK, this is garbage. First of all, it should be pre-Copernican, not pre-Galilean. But much worse is that people have seriously been considering heliocentrism for many centuries before Copernicus. Aristarchus had proposed a heliocentric model in the 4th-century BC. It had generally been considered wrong, but not "mad." (And wrong for scientific reasons: Why, for instance, did we not observe stellar parallax?) And when Copernicus propose...
The two superpowers I still lack but want are:
ReplyDelete1) The ability to alleviate pain with a mere thought.
2) The power of Electric Boogaloo. This would be where I clap my hands and everyone within fifty yards of me begins to breakdance. I'm afraid that I would be too easily tempted into using this power for pure evil, but I have wanted it for a long time now.
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ReplyDeleteThe other day my kids were discussing which super powers they'd like to have, things like "Seeing through walls," or "Healing wounds with the mind." Then they asked me which one I'd choose. "That's easy," I said, "I'd like the power to get clothes clean and smelling fresh, while still leaving colors as bright as new."
I have three of the little joys.....
how about the invisible power....
I'd like to have the power to read the Wall Street Journal a few days before it's printed. I'd simply buy whatever other powers I wanted with my trading profits.
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