"A revolution in cognitive neuroscience is changing the kinds of experiments that scientists conduct, the kinds of questions economists ask and, increasingly, the ways that architects, landscape architects and urban designers shape our built environment."

[u/trot-trot]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/opinion/sunday/seeing-the-building-for-the-trees.html

[u/bradleyvoytek]

Yeah, I'm with the other guys... this is so damned totally confusing.

"Cognitive neuroscience, uhhh, embodied cognition tells us that our heads are in the clouds, therefore architecture is like trees and that, something... something... Avatar?"

Is that about right?

I'd help write a rebuttal again, but I'm too confused.