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Inspired by the vastly different mindset and cultural and religious structure of ancient civilizations, the psychologist Julian Jaynes put for the radical notion of the Bicameral Mind, which posits that ancient people, indeed all people in their more natural environment are not actually conscious.

Consciousness, to Jaynes, was a mental habit that gradually developed in the period after the Bronze Age collapse, around 1200 BC. Before that, the two hemispheres of the brain were separate, and mental deliberation appeared to people as divine inspiration.

As utterly mad as this theory first sounds, the cultural, psychological, archaeological and linguistic evidence for it is grounds for more than a pause. Join us for a journey through the Iliad, Mesopotamia, the oldest prophets of the Bible and more on the first episode of Not Related!.

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00:00	The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
10:00	Consciousness generally
17:11	Consciousness and qualia
19:43	What should we expect from the Bicameral Mind
22:39	Emails and User Comments Economics, quantitative methods, Marxism, Big-Branded Nihilism, Emergence, Are rocks conscious?, J.F. Gariepy, Don't go to college.
34:00	A Greek Vocabulary Lesson
38:57	Le Bronze-Age Collapse Mindset (the Chad Achilles)
43:05	The Eternal Odysseus and Solon
44:50	Whomst are all these voices in my head?
46:53	The Trump inside your head
48:28	How to Organize a Bicameral Theocracy (Not saying it was aliens, but...)
54:39	Amos and Ecclesiastes
57:53	The Rise of the Fedora in the Middle East
59:28	The Words for the Bicameral Voices
1:01:46	Prophecy
1:07:20	Music and Poetry
1:10:40	Psychological states, schizophrenia and possession
1:11:43	The best of the theory and lacunae
1:14:58	Extensions and the Julian Jaynes Society
1:16:17	Big-Braned Levels of Consciousness
1:18:00	Anime pillows

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