Recent studies of command hallucinations experienced by schizophrenics (see: Related Articles > Command Hallucinations ) lend additional credibility to Jaynes's theory that commanding hallucinations controlled the actions of people in ancient societies. There also seems to be a relationship between ...

One criticism of Jaynes's theory (see Stove "The Oracles and Their Cessation" and Dennett's "Jaynes's Software Archeology") is that if Jaynes is correct, hallucinations ought to be more common in the normal population. Recent studies, however, show that hallucinations are far mor...

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