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...
Flashbacks much, Gene? :D
ReplyDeleteWhen they warned us about flashbacks in health ed I always thought the chance to trip again without even having to take a drug was a great selling point of LSD.
ReplyDeleteI realize what you're getting at, but even so your back was to the corner. So you needed (what remains of) your mind to recognize that you were in the correct room.
ReplyDeleteDon't worry, Gene, we've all found ourselves in that room at one time or another. Most of us aren't lucky enough to have your wife on the phone, but I digress....
ReplyDeleteGene, me too!
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