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
I really believed the Priory of Scion was actually a thing.
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ReplyDeleteI was duped into watching one of the movies. At one point Tom Hanks asks for a map of "all the churches in Rome." This is like asking for a list of all the parking signs in Manhattan.
In one book, he says that Christians got the idea for the Eucharist from the Aztecs. Which would mean that no one had communion before 1500 A.D.
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