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
Ha, it took me a second.
ReplyDeleteI don't know why I do this, but sometimes when I am reading certain things I will skip over the parts that my mind tells me aren't important to the general information. In this case, I skipped the restaurant name the first time around, which isn't important to the story, but is definitely important with regard to the joke.
Gene, the photo of the restaurant owner looks a bit like you in your post-mugging photos.
ReplyDeleteNon fare lo stronzo, Andy: I look better than that even mugged.
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