You Probably Did Not Know This About Me, But...
I have worked on numerous films... and been dead for over twenty years!
"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...
"... and been dead for over twenty years!"
ReplyDeleteThat explains why I get along with you. Honesty is key with me, and nobody is more honest than a dead man.
Even my namesake is cooler than yours.
ReplyDeleteA typo: you clearly meant to write: "At least my namesake is cooler than yours."
DeleteWhat a resume! The IMDB profile says you worked on some of the great film director Elia Kazan's films, particularly The Fugitive Kind. Interesting, but I prefer the knowledgeable economist and professor instead.
ReplyDeleteI just figured that's why you're so confident about the materialism thing.
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