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by martinem
Mon Jan 11, 2010 7:04 am
Forum: 2.0. Hypothesis Two: The Bicameral Mind
Topic: Wise Gods?
Replies: 8
Views: 27594

Re: Wise gods?

I see. Maybe the right brain was/is more holistic while the left was/is more analytic-reductionistic. It could explain the corresponding modern dialectics. But I still wonder: how could the right brain have been so wise as described? How could the adolescent uneducated priestesses of Delphi have had...
by martinem
Fri Sep 25, 2009 3:27 pm
Forum: 2.0. Hypothesis Two: The Bicameral Mind
Topic: Conscious Kings?
Replies: 7
Views: 24966

Re: Conscious kings?

About the monotone voice: I thought I remembered i passage in The Book where Jaynes discusses monotony of voices, but I can't find it now. I see now that aprosodia occurs in schizofrenia, but it is more typical for autism, depression and lesions to the right brain hemisphere. So I was wrong about th...
by martinem
Wed Sep 02, 2009 5:27 pm
Forum: 1.0. Hypothesis One: Consciousness Based On Language
Topic: Are Enslaved People Less Conscious?
Replies: 3
Views: 18648

Re: Are enslaved people less conscious?

I agree that not all people undergo compromising of consciosness under submission. Allthough it is a widely accepted concept. It can be expressed in a freudian way as a defence mechanism of the mind. Torture victims therapists talk about "identification with the aggressor" and that the vic...
by martinem
Wed Sep 02, 2009 5:01 pm
Forum: 2.0. Hypothesis Two: The Bicameral Mind
Topic: Conscious Kings?
Replies: 7
Views: 24966

Re: Conscious kings?

Hello Moderator! Thank you for your quick replies to this and my other questions about slavery and about right-brain function. It is actually the first time I get to discuss these topics with someone else. You probably know how difficult it is to discuss preconscious mentality with noninitiated peop...
by martinem
Tue Sep 01, 2009 7:31 am
Forum: 1.0. Hypothesis One: Consciousness Based On Language
Topic: Are Enslaved People Less Conscious?
Replies: 3
Views: 18648

Are Enslaved People Less Conscious?

Are enslaved people less conscious than free men? Is the hebrew's Exodus from slavery in Egypt an example of consciousness appearing in history? And conversely, if you put a human of today into slave-like conditions (as in the nazi-camps), would he fall into a less conscious state? I certainly hope ...
by martinem
Tue Sep 01, 2009 6:44 am
Forum: 2.0. Hypothesis Two: The Bicameral Mind
Topic: Conscious Kings?
Replies: 7
Views: 24966

Conscious Kings?

In bicameral times, as I understand it, a difficult decision wold be passed on (unconsciously, of course) to the right hemisphere which in turn was under influence of the next priest in command. The buck would stop at the king who then would have the most complicated decisions to make. Isn't it plau...
by martinem
Tue Sep 01, 2009 6:29 am
Forum: 2.0. Hypothesis Two: The Bicameral Mind
Topic: Wise Gods?
Replies: 8
Views: 27594

Wise Gods?

Page 85 in the book: "[The bicameral man facing a brand-new situation] would have to wait for his bicameral voice which with the stored-up admonitory wisdom of his life would tell him non-consciously what to do." Is the right hemisphere wise? How can it judge more complex situations than t...

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