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...
She was vastly better than Crowe or Jackman. Not intended as high praise! A very disappointing movie, I think the music got second rate treatment: marquee names over you know singers.
ReplyDeleteGene is the Javert of the blogosphere.
ReplyDeleteJavert, who never changes his mind? The Javert who, once he writes a book, sticks to it forever? That Javert?
DeleteActually, having heard Bob do karaoke, and Russell Crowe do the movie, maybe Bob is the Javert ...
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