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
WTG! I am proud to know you, Doctor.
ReplyDeleteWoo hoo! So now you can't get drunk anymore, right?
ReplyDeleteThanks, Jim.
ReplyDeleteBob, I've never been drunk.
Since you're sometimes blogging in italian....
ReplyDelete....congratulazioni dottore!
Ashoka, I think I just fought you in Civilization IV.
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ReplyDeleteNon vedo l'ora che esca Civ V in autunno! So già che passerò le notti a giocarci.. ma è così sin dal primo.
Looking forward to the next chapter this Fall! I know I'm going to play till morning but... it's going like this since the first chapter came out
Marco
P.S. ti scrivo anche in italiano così tu fai pratica con l'italiano ed io con l'inglese :-)
Molto bene, Marco.
ReplyDeleteWonderful. Congratulations, Dr. Callahan.
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