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
Where are the side-by-side photos? Bloggin 101, Wabulon.
ReplyDeleteBut not to be hurtful, wabbie, but when you were 25 and she was 27 she looked a lot better than you also. At least in my eyes.
ReplyDelete"Raquel Welch is 73. I'm 71. She looks so much better than I do"
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness... the answer is: she's had huge plastic surgery.
I realize this is a joke post etc., but for what it's worth Wabulon, I had no idea you were that old (having met you once). So you got that going for ya, which is nice.
ReplyDeleteI believe that several years ago, when you met, he was somewhat younger.
DeleteHa.
DeleteAt first, I was going to call BS ("Gene's too immature to be that old") ;). But then I realized that Wabulon posted this.
Fallacious reasoning, Joe. I surely will still be this immature at 71.
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