Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind
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Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind is a recurring book in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between November 11, 2022 and September 28, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “Reading Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind (see my review here ) convinced me”; “Julian Jaynes’ Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind”. It most often appears alongside Aella, 2020 election, @eigenrobot.
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- Category: Books
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: November 11, 2022
- Last seen: September 28, 2023
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I find this all pretty believable for a few reasons. Lots of people (Buddhists, philosophers, psychologists) talk about how the ego is an illusion. And if you’re going to have an illusion, it doesn’t seem significantly weirder to have two illusions. Reading Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind (see my review here) convinced me that all theories of mind are made up, that different cultures make up their theories of mind differently, and that theories of mind which separate the ego and superego and whatever into different entities aren’t inherently dumber or harder to work with than theories which count them all as the same entity.
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26: A few years ago I reviewed Julian Jaynes’ Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind, arguing that Jaynes was on the right track but disagreeing with some of his theories and terminological choices. I didn’t notice until now that orthodox Jaynesian Marcel Kuijsten has an argument here that Jaynes is right and my reinterpretation is wrong.