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
Huh?!
ReplyDeleteI am almost afraid to ask, but what prompted this?
By the way, interesting new blog-header.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, do you know what the header is referencing?
ReplyDeleteI would imagine that it has to do with current instability of nations and its threat to "whirled peas". Sure, it is a generality, but things are quite strange these days. More war seems to be afoot.
ReplyDeleteIf you were thinking of something more specific, then I must say that I am at a loss.
Well, there is the whole Ron Artest thing, as well. Haha!
ReplyDeleteI have a feeling that you wouldn't change your header just for "Metta World Peace". It's got to be deeper than that.
Well, it was mostly just my chuckling about Artest, but if there is anything deeper, it's that perhaps this blog can best be called "the blog with the ever changing name."
ReplyDeleteThe post? Sheer whimsy.
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