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As a pastel practitioner myself, but furtively sharing many of Hawkins' prejudices and hunches about computational modelling in neuroscience, I am caught between commendation and consternation.
Ross, to the apparent consternation of some reviewers but to my relief, strays beyond it.
One does not ordinarily expect a slim volume written by an academic philosopher and published by a university press to cause widespread consternation on the right.
We are all familiar with the naming process, whether it be with the great relief at hearing the doctor say “muscular strain” instead of “rheumatoid arthritis” as he examines the x-rays, with the Sunday supplement newspaper article summing up (for the umpteenth time) the latest new words and acronyms, with nothing with amusement, admiration, or consternation what some people name their children, and with scores of other instances we encounter daily.
Because the fiddling charge arises in the context of college rankings . In the hushed groves of academia, few things cause more consternation than an outsider using numeral measurements to gauge academic performance--even though colleges and universities rely on similar measurements to rate their applicants.