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There's a fourth assumption missing, which is also wrong: that the localized traits are things like "honesty" or "good character" instead of things like "motor function in the upper right torso." My neurology textbook has a great figure from an old phrenology publication, it demonstrates the philosophical idea of there being brain regions for cognitive functions, but the partitions and labels are completely made up.


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