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
Gene,
ReplyDeleteBob is going to be on a live internet radio show at 8pm eastern today, here is the link:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/insanegovernment/2011/11/18/insane-government-with-guest-robert-p-murphy
I just figured that you might be interested. Maybe he'll actually mention something. Either way, he probably just forgot to renew his domain name or something like that (I hope).
Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI actually found this by accident. I was trying to search google to find out what happened to his blog.
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