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...
Off topic: I am just listening to a great piece of music you might appreciate, since you seem to like bella Italia quite much.
ReplyDeleteHave a look at Mike Patton's record Mondo Cane:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondo_Cane_(album)
I am absolutely hooked, although this is really not the kind of music I normally listen to.. I guess I am starting getting old.
If you're still wondering, "Diez y media de la mañana" is how I would say it (literally "half past ten of the morning").
ReplyDeleteThanks. I knew it was like that, but I now have the Italian words all muddled in my head with the Spanish ones.
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