ABSTRACT
One January a few years ago, shortly after the governor of Arizona had been impeached and the Exxon Valdez had spilled its cargo around Port Arthur, I had one of those uncanny experiences reserved for the people who read old news. Paging through the San Jose Mercury for January 1917, I came upon an article describing the impeachment of the governor of Arizona and a report of a large oil spill at Valdez, Alaska. Nietzche, it seems, was on to something, the Eternal Return, the no news under the sun, the history repeats itself sort of thing. I have had similarly uncanny experiences over the last few years reading bits of the literature of cognitive science as it has emerged in our time, and reading in the same years the literature of physiology, psychology, and psychiatry in the closing years of the 19th century. The parallelism is nowhere more striking than with the views of Kinsbourne and Farah (this volume).
