"Pre-Galilean" Foolishness
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...
Back in April...
ReplyDeleteat last..he dead eh? 102 is not small number. lucky him..
ReplyDeleteDidn't the NYT declare that God (the creator of ergot and its LSD component) was dead decades ago?
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ReplyDeleteWell, excuuuuuuuse me. I just found out, so I thought some CR readers might have missed it as well.
"God (the creator of ergot and its LSD component)"
LSD is synthesized from ergot fungus -- it is not a component of it.
I see that you are right again, Gene.
ReplyDeleteWhile I had recalled correctly that lysergic acid is an ergot component, I had not realized that the diethylamide of lysergic acid was artifically synthesized from it.
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