« Her narrative is constructed as a collection of metaphors, building from factual beginnings about her stroke and her experience of the stroke, moving to a description of her experience that is couched in metaphors that look like facts, but are not, and leading to a speculation about the construction of the human being and human experience, expressed as a declaration. Science is about the development of speculations that are then tested with facts that are tested for their truth or falsehood. This talk is not that. » dans Comment on Jill Bolte Taylor’s Impressive TED Talk, 2 avril 2008.
guardian.co.uk
« Her description of becoming incapable of speech and coordinated action was absolutely gripping, but she claimed to be a neuroscientist (frequently) and then spouted misleading gibberish about right brain/left brain differences, and how she (an inner self?) watched what happened to her brain. I was not the only one squirming in my seat at the time. […] In the great wide world of the web, and with easy access to podcasts, false ideas may thrive because of fine presentation or moving emotional manipulation. Taylor's was precisely that. » dans « How to enjoy a conference », The Guardian, 5 avril 2008.
mindhacks.com
« You can almost hear the sound of a thousand cognitive scientists gritting their teeth as she describes the supposed functions of each cerebral hemisphere and probably the sound of some of them fainting when she describes the "deep inner peace circuitry" of the right hemisphere. » source : A stroke of insight. Mind Kacks, 17 mars 2008.
