I just had to write about my recent experience of spell-checking a paper I am writing on embodiment and cognition. In my paper I argue that the embodied perspective on cognition takes findings from neuroscience seriously, but that classical cognitive science dismisses them as mere implementational issues and thus not of value in explanations of cognition. So, I’m really boosting neuroscience where it is otherwise being disrespected.
Then, I perform a spellcheck in openoffice (my word processor) and openoffice replaces all instances of “neuroscience” with “pseudoscience.” Apparently, openoffice does not have the word neuroscience in its Canadian English dictionary and the closest it could find was “pseudoscience.” Too damn funny.
Yeah… OK. I fully expect that nobody but me will find it funny.
