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Gage deserves a better legacy

Summary by metafilter.com
The stories told about Gage and the theories of frontal lobe function that draw on his life speak powerfully to our beliefs about morality and free will. But they are not really scientific. Instead, they are drawn from spiritual beliefs and superstitions. They revive the 17th-century ideas of Thomas Hobbes about civilisation's role in suppressing the most barbarous aspects of human nature. They sustain imagery from pseudosciences like phrenology…
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Gage deserves a better legacy

The stories told about Gage and the theories of frontal lobe function that draw on his life speak powerfully to our beliefs about morality and free will. But they are not really scientific. Instead, they are drawn from spiritual beliefs and superstitions. They revive the 17th-century ideas of Thomas Hobbes about civilisation's role in suppressing the most barbarous aspects of human nature. They sustain imagery from pseudosciences like phrenology…

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metafilter.com broke the news in on Saturday, August 16, 2025.
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