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- Tue Sep 23, 2014 1:12 pm
- Forum: 1.0. Hypothesis One: Consciousness Based On Language
- Topic: The Unusual Language That Linguists Thought Couldn’t Exist
- Replies: 2
- Views: 24046
The Unusual Language That Linguists Thought Couldn’t Exist
Came across this article about a mode of communication some linguists felt unique. "ABSL provides fodder for researchers who reject the idea that there’s a genetic basis for the similarities found across languages. Instead, they argue, languages share certain properties because they all have to...
- Sun Sep 14, 2014 3:41 pm
- Forum: 1.0. Hypothesis One: Consciousness Based On Language
- Topic: Doctors Discover A Woman With No Cerebellum
- Replies: 1
- Views: 16578
Doctors Discover A Woman With No Cerebellum
An interesting patient: 24-year-old woman complaining of dizziness and nausea . . . . "A 24-year-old woman complaining of dizziness and nausea was admitted to a hospital in Shandong Province recently, where she told doctors she had struggled with balance all her life. When doctors performed a b...
- Sun Sep 14, 2014 3:36 pm
- Forum: 1.0. Hypothesis One: Consciousness Based On Language
- Topic: Mysterious Soundscapes
- Replies: 1
- Views: 16045
Mysterious Soundscapes
I came across this post: 10 Mysterious Soundscapes That Rocked The Ancient World . "Until recently, archaeology has focused almost exclusively on the visual, giving us a limited view of ancient cultures. But the emerging field of archaeoacoustics broadens our understanding from a cold snapshot ...
- Wed Sep 10, 2014 12:01 pm
- Forum: 1.0. Hypothesis One: Consciousness Based On Language
- Topic: Neuroscientist's Radical Theory of How Networks Become Consc
- Replies: 1
- Views: 16019
Neuroscientist's Radical Theory of How Networks Become Consc
Just saw this on Wired: A Neuroscientist's Radical Theory of How Networks Become Conscious . "It's a question that's perplexed philosophers for centuries and scientists for decades: Where does consciousness come from? We know it exists, at least in ourselves. But how it arises from chemistry an...
- Fri Aug 22, 2014 11:03 am
- Forum: 3.0. Hypothesis Three: Dating the Development of Consciousness
- Topic: Socrates vs. Aristotle - Which One Was Bicameral?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 28817
Re: Socrates vs. Aristotle - Which One Was Bicameral?
Although this is quite an old thread, pardon my necromancy, I wanted to recall that almost everything that we know of Socrates was written not by Socrates at all, but by others - Plato Xenophon, others. Can we point to a person and say that is the real Socrates? Such an awareness leaves us with the ...
- Thu Aug 21, 2014 10:11 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Welcome / Introductions
- Replies: 35
- Views: 98577
Re: Welcome / Introductions
Hello, I am a librarian who is quite interested in Bicameralism, and also in the catastrophes of the earlier civilizations. In other venues, after reading peer-reviewed studies about the electromagnetic alterations experienced by the planet during the Bicameral timeline, as evidenced in the geologic...
- Thu Aug 21, 2014 9:57 am
- Forum: 2.0. Hypothesis Two: The Bicameral Mind
- Topic: Nonliteral Understanding of Number Words - PNAS
- Replies: 0
- Views: 28239
Nonliteral Understanding of Number Words - PNAS
I came across this peer-reviewed, full text study at PNAS: Nonliteral understanding of number words via this article: How numbers help us spot metaphors and irony Abstract: "One of the most puzzling and important facts about communication is that people do not always mean what they say; speaker...
- Thu Aug 21, 2014 9:50 am
- Forum: News Items Related to Jaynes's Theory
- Topic: Talking to Ourselves: The Science of the Little Voice...
- Replies: 1
- Views: 13899
Talking to Ourselves: The Science of the Little Voice...
I came across this article in The Guardian - Talking to Ourselves: The Science of the Little Voice in Your Head by 'Peter Moseley, PhD student in the psychology department at Durham University; he works with the Hearing the Voice project.' "If we want to understand what's happening in the brain...