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
If Romney wins, I think this embassy attack will have had a lot to do with it.
ReplyDeleteThat's possible, but I think that it's related to a much broader issue of dominance in the region. I very much believe that a Romney win would have to do with his support from Wall Street and the Israeli lobby. I don't think that Obama wants to pull the trigger against Iran, but I am sure that Romney has no problem doing so. For that alone I wish for Obama to stay in office (in spite of the other problems that I have with him), because I know that the ptb wants a war with Iran and they usually get what they want.
DeleteOf course, I could be wrong, and Obama could be planning to war with Iran after the elections.