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
That is one of the coolest things I have ever heard of. Do you think he'll get it back? Are you close enough friends to get a ride in it?
ReplyDeleteI imagine he will get it back, and he needs it back as the main exhibit in his next gallery show. I certainly could get a "ride" in it, although all it can do at present is bob along in the current. In fact, I will appear on video in the exhibit featuring this sub, playing a conspiracy-minded history professor. Tonight, I made a serious effort to get arrested along with Duke by playing 4-on-4 capture the flag in the middle of a main Brooklyn street at 3 am, but all I succeeded in doing was getting a severe gash above my eye as I pursued an opponent. Oh, won't someone arrest me and put me on the front page of every New York paper?
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