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
But "football" means "soccer" in Greece.
ReplyDeleteBTW, did you profit from your insight? Surely you didn't absorb that Socratic lesson after the bookies stopped accepting wagers.
ReplyDeleteIf someone or something enjoys unending successes, surely hubris will take them down as advertised, but when? How do you figure when to sell them short?
ReplyDeletewabulon asked:
ReplyDeleteHow do you figure when to sell them short?
Right before they lose, but only if no one else realizes it too.
Wabulon: in the final game of the season!
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