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...
Thanks. I'll remember that one.
ReplyDeleteWhen they added up change themselves, they didn't. (Remember? "20, 50, 5 pounds, and 5 makes 10") But now the till adds change for them, they do.
ReplyDeleteBecause they are young and are counting out the sum they see displayed. They read 16.37 from right to left and pay you right to left. Older cashiers, lacking such displays woul announe you paid 3.63, pay the coins to count up to 4.00 and the bills 5, 10, 15, 20 as they pay out a 1 and three 5s.
ReplyDeleteThat or an Obama conspiracy.
Here in Cleveland we have to hand-to-hand change-giving, it's all passed through a slot below the bulletproof glass window.
ReplyDeleteSorry, typo. I meant to say that we "have no hand-to-hand change giving"
DeleteI think they subconsciously do not want to touch your hand. (I have made a similar observation - - certain sorts of people will seem to deliberately touch your hand and other sorts will go out of their way not to.)
ReplyDeleteSounds quite plausible.
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