Not all humans are conscious? Some humans aren't capable of inner reflection? But instead, they merely react to outside forces, and/or hallucinations ... perhaps hallucinations that took place in caves 1500 years ago?
Hmm.
Hard to believe, right?
Sunday, July 21, 2019
The Origin of Consciousness In The Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Consciousness is a product of evolution? A reaction to stimuli? An adaptation?
Not all humans are conscious? Some humans aren't capable of inner reflection? But instead, they merely react to outside forces, and/or hallucinations ... perhaps hallucinations that took place in caves 1500 years ago?
Hmm.
Hard to believe, right?
Not all humans are conscious? Some humans aren't capable of inner reflection? But instead, they merely react to outside forces, and/or hallucinations ... perhaps hallucinations that took place in caves 1500 years ago?
Hmm.
Hard to believe, right?
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Read that book in college in the early 80s. At the time Sociobiology by E O Wilson was all the rage. People did not much read Jaynes, probably because the text was dense.
Both theories are determinist in nature, at least Jaynes identified a probable cause in bicameral meta-cognition. But one would have to believe that prehistoric humans were uniformly schizophrenic which doesn't strike me as a evolutionary advantage.
Good point.
I am not going to argue it one way or the other.
I think Jaynes idea is interesting.
One could attribute the "schizophrenia" state to a dream state. Irrational information being fed into the rational brain. Inspired and metaphorical. I am not sure that it would necessarily be much more of a hindrance than dreams themselves.
Some people's dreams are more vivid than others.
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