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
Dear Gene,
ReplyDeleteSpeaking only for myself, but as someone who appreciates your humanity, please, please, do what you can in the future to avoid exposure to such corrosive drivel. Even a preview might permanently warp your brain.
Can I send you anything? Sympathy card, teddy bear, interweb hugs? It must be awful what you're going through.
Try, try to forget.
I'm afraid that the exposure to the stupidity singularity of even this preview has unalterably corrupted my being.
ReplyDeleteI actually paid $9.50 to watch the Zohan movie a few days ago. At this point my favorite part of movies are the previews. You would think that I would learn to stop getting excited about previews to things that I don't like as much as the next set of previews.
ReplyDeleteNo, Bob, given your enthusiasm for the "Ron Paul preview," we wouldn't think that at all.
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