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
Maybe you're thinking, "Surely everyone understands enough Italian to at least get what I'm doing in these posts."
ReplyDeleteNope.
Yeah, I suppose I should have posted the explanation in English, huh?
ReplyDeleteJust forcing myself to write in Italian is all.
I read in an Italian textbook, "Today, many youngins have abandoned the country for the great cities."
ReplyDeleteAnd after, a rich, English husband and wife buy the property a write a book about repairing it.