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George Makari: Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind [2017] paperback ZTEEN Betsy's friendship with Napoleon castSoul Machine takes us back to the origins of modernity, a time when a crisis in religious authority and the scientific revolution led to searching questions about the nature of human inner life. This is the story of how a new concept the mind emerged as a potential solution, one that was part soul and part machine but fully neither. George Makari shows how writers, philosophers, doctors and anatomists worked to construct notions of the mind as not an