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 the Meta in Metaphor?
The lexicon of language then is a finite set of terms that by metaphor is able to stretch out over an infinite set of circumstances, even to creating new circumstances thereby could consciousness be such a creation. James really takes the discussion of metaphor beyond anything that had been previously done there had been other people who looked at breaking metaphor down into its different constituent parts. Even the word to be has its roots in a Sanskrit word, Bhu, Bhu,. which means to grow, and am have their roots in us me which means to breathe. So what we thought of as a solid state of being is actually a state of becoming because in Sanskrit there was no word for existence existence is like a modern
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