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Who came up with Neuron Doctrine? 

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Gold & Stoljar argue persuasively that there is presently not a good case for the "radical neuron doctrine."
It settled the then-current debate between the "Reticular Theory" versus "Neuron Doctrine" ideas about the fundamental nature of the nervous system in mammals in favor of the latter, and it changed forever the way in which subsequent generations have viewed the organization of the central nervous system.
Revisiting the Neuron Doctrine suggests that future research outside its limits may lead to new insights into the unique capabilities of the human brain.
We argue that the neuron doctrine appears to be both substantive and uncontroversial only as a result of a conflation of these two versions.
Gold & Stoljar are right in rejecting the radical neuron doctrine, but we argue that their distinction between determination and explanation is not principled enough to support their conclusion.
We conclude that the evidence fails to support the radical neuron doctrine.
It is proposed that it is more plausible that there is slippage from the moderate to the radical neuron doctrine than that there is confusion between the radical neuron doctrine and the trivial version.

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