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
sue me?
ReplyDeleteThis is supposed to be Soparno talk? Keep watchin youngsta, you got a long way to go.
Not sure what you mean, Gene. The "woke up this morning" reminds me of a Doors song, and the "sue me" part reminds me of a Prince song.
ReplyDeleteIs that what you had in mind?
Don't know, Bob, but you can call me Deacon Blues.
ReplyDeleteNo, Sidney, it's not.
ReplyDeleteTokyoTom wins the prize.
Thanks, Gene!
ReplyDeleteIt seems that the tricky part, for sidney and Bob at least, was to understand the question.
If I may venture, the "woke up this morning, got myself a gun" was very definitely the Sopranos theme song, as Gene acknowledged. That leaves the rest as what Gene intended by that.