Marcel Kuijsten - Julian Jaynes and the Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Self Portraits As Other People
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What Is Consciousness?
Insects, white blood cells can react and respond to their environment. So if you really adopted that type of sensory perception definition of consciousness, then you'd have to say there are millions of conscious beings circulating through our circulatory system at any given moment. It even flips the tables in a sense that if you take sensory input or sensory data as consciousness, then what leaves that to be the unconscious? Like from the Jainesian perspective, consciousness is one thing, and the unconscious is everything that falls outside of that. Huxley put forth the notion that the nervous system is a kind of reducing valve of information. Through consciousness, it distills it into the pattern we can project onto
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