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Agreed. Phrenology was the old hat idea, where names of folk psychology concepts were scrawled across areas of cortex.

The brain is specialised and differentiated.

However our concepts of what it does are being refined.

Instead of hunting for "the place where happiness lives", imposing ideas from culturally laden folk psychology onto the gelatinous mass... we are moving towards more fundamental notions of complex nervous system axioms. Like seeking, avoidance, arousal, mood, emotional valence, attention.

Brains are fun



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