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
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ReplyDeleteOh, right, heh heh. My comment on that post was part of Gene's plan. I used my slug mating call.
ReplyDeleteIt really is funny, though, that when you call Lew Rockwell a cult leader, his fans get upset. That's just what you would expect from cult members.
ReplyDelete"I used my slug mating call."
ReplyDeleteYes, thanks for working with me on that one.
Bob, there's a little difference between "get upset" and "start a vicious smear campaign."
ReplyDeleteHave you read Voegelin's A New Science of Politics yet?
By the way, this trait is well-known in libertarian circles -- when a friend of mine was interviewing people on a related topic, he said he heard from many people, "Yeah, I could talk to you about this, but don't use my name -- I couldn't take the smear campaign LVMI would start against me if you revealed my identity."
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ReplyDeleteBob, there's a little difference between "get upset" and "start a vicious smear campaign."
I think you misunderstood my post. I'm not talking about the Reason piece of investigative journalism, I'm talking about your slug trap. I.e. it sounded like you were saying, "Can you believe these pawns? All I do is mock their heroes, and then they go and write me nasty comments in my trap. All part of my master plan, moo hoo ha HA!"
But if you got that, then I am unaware of a vicious smear campaign against you.
Oh and no, I didn't read that book. Did I say I would?
ReplyDeleteI only like slug traps with beer.
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