"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...
I misread that as "Horse Hunting with Bob Dylan", which might indeed make an entertaining watch, at least for those who are not squeamish about violence toward companionate animals. Upon opening the link and finding that it was about the New Jersey story, I began to wonder if you were instead implicating that Dylan might have been out trying to score heroin.
ReplyDeleteI picture a show where we follow Dylan around as he wanders through suburban neighborhoods on dark, stormy nights, creeping through people's yards, checking out their houses, getting picked up by the police, shot at...
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