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There is a school of thought which says that authors should write their conclusions before they write the body of the book. In my case this was out of the question because although I knew what I was going to write about, I had no idea of where it was going to lead. These conclusions will fill in the gaps about some of the arrival points. There was one place, however, where I knew I was going and that was the social nature of the brain.
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Lakoff and Johnson have been wrongly criticized for saying that all of out thought is molded by these metaphors.
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Franks, D.D. (2010). Conclusion. In: Neurosociology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5531-9_11
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