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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Memory and the Evolution of Consciousness
Children are like little bicameral men and women except instead of a hallucinated voice they might have an imaginary friend. It is the parents largely that do the commanding until the crowd learns interiority which then you know still you might have the voice of your mother in there when you click your fork against your tongue saying like don't click your forks against your tongue so it's again this kind of like bicamoral control system that's passed on. right in need it's interesting that we can through this avenue see the what potentially the evolution of consciousness forming again people suggest that James has interesting ideas but they're not necessarily testable and falsifiable and I really don't think
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