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?
There's many anecdotes of physicists and mathematicians and scientists who are struggling with a problem, and then after a period of relaxation, often sleep, suddenly the solution comes to them. That's like the Archimedes Eureka moment in the bathtub, right? Exactly. And even in those issues that you mentioned, it doesn't take any interiority to come to this conclusion to figure this out. You can afterwards interpret it in a way of how you came to that conclusion, but that's still after the fact which kind of plays into some of the things we'll talk about later about misinterpretations or modernizations of older scriptures.
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