• Tujio@lemmy.world
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    I believe Terry Pratchett called it Autophrenology. If the patterns of bumps and divots in your skull determine your personality traits, then changing those bumps changes your personality. There was a whole industry of doctors with ball peen hammers.

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      He is hitting his head against the wall hard enough to give him a brain injury.