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Discusses Emil du Bois-Reymond's popular lectures.

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Refutes Philip Pauly's contention that neuroscience in Imperial Berlin reflected authoritarian politics.

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Old manuscript lecture notes written in Kurrentschrift are nearly illegible. This is probably why no one knows about Emil du Bois-Reymond's contributions to brain science.

Dr Gabriel Finkelstein
University of Colorado Denver

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This page is a summary of: Emil du Bois-Reymond on “The Seat of the Soul”, Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, January 2014, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/0964704x.2013.799415.
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