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Plato's Idea of the Human Brain
Plato gave us the idea that the human brain has three brains in it, three forces which is kind of a compelling notion. In the middle of the 20th century there was a very popular view of brain evolution which suggested you have this reptilian core like a lizard and inner lizard brain for instincts. And by the 1970s it was shown pretty clearly with evidence for molecular genetics so peering into cells in the brain to look at the molecular makeup of genes that the brain did not evolve that way.