I Found a Gym
I signed up for the course in gagging. I think I will do well.
"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...
What the heck is gagging? Is it literally gagging? I know my abs and back muscles certainly got a good workout anytime my gag reflex was stimulated. Then again, that was due to the vomiting. LOL
ReplyDeleteJoseph, I have no clue: I just got a kick out of seeing "gag" as something I could do at the gym.
ReplyDelete"Body building." Is English usurping koine status in Italy?
ReplyDeleteYes, PSH: a post on that topic up in a moment.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, are you still in the UK?
I returned to the United States about a month ago. Life is more comfortable here; but I do miss the architecture and the Bodleian Library.
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