The Wonder of Monteleone's Bakery
The day before Thanksgiving:
"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...
Woohoo! Time to get fat. Oh wait, I'm already there.
ReplyDeleteYou certainly don't see displays like that in Cleveland, that's for sure (though, there are still some fantastic delis and bakeries).
Just out of curiosity, what are those big hamburger looking things on the top row in the second pic? Is it some sort of cake-burger? Any idea what's in it?
Yeah, those are cakes that look exactly like cheeseburgers, with all the fixins. And that big brown thing is a cake that looks exactly like a roasted turkey, including having drumsticks.
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