I am touching a computer keyboard...
for the first time in eight days.
That is probably the longest I have gone without typing for 15 years.
That is probably the longest I have gone without typing for 15 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...
But how much do you write? I am curious because I write much more than I type in most cases. What is worse is that I use block lettering.
ReplyDeleteOnly the blog posts of the last week, from my phone.
DeleteBut I did also make a bunch of notes in a book I am reviewing.
I find typing is like riding a bicycle: almost immediately I am making all the same typos as effortlessly as before.
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