The Psychology of the Bicameral Mind 

So glad you’re carrying Jaynes torch.

Watching CGP Grey's video "You are Two" about split-brain patients (medically severed corpus callosum) very much adds to this concept in my opinion.

Such a brilliant channel. Thanks you so much

I think the uncomfortable truth no one wants to come to terms with is that after the late Neolithic, it wasn't us as individuals evolving anymore, but larger-scale units of societies and neurotransmitters. Culture doesn't give a damn if an individual is happy or survives, all that matters is that the culture propagates itself... Identify with your individuality at your peril, much better to sink into the apathy of consumerism.

You continue to impress, my friend (this is Pete Paj). Keep it up

I first read Jaynes in the late 70's and still have my copy. Very compelling.

So you mentioned the janitor example and that sounds like it'd explain why a lot of people say they can sense the "presence" of other people. Your subconscious picks up on micro-stimuli such as, say, a small sound or the air moving slightly. Your conscious mind then gets that creepy feeling of another presence all while being unaware that you even heard or felt anything. That might just explain a lot of the weird things people feel. I'm just spitballing here though.

I think the voices are "the 7 inner critics" (The superego from Frued's structure of the mind) as well as the intuition and other psychological archetypes.. Thats why they have different voices and tones

Great video as always 👍👍👍 Would be nice to see a video about attention, how it works and how it is controlled (psychologically speaking)

I wonder if the right side of the brain contains the unconscious?

I'm schizophrenic, and though I don't hear voices, I often think I'm talking with God, the God of Full Metal Alchemist.

I wonder if the paracas elongated skulls people had a hyper tuned up bicameral mind that helped them build megalithic monuments.

Great video as always! I have a question for you about what books, in your opinion, should be read before really being able to tackle The Aion and The Origins and the History of Consciousness. Should Man and his symbols and The archetypes of the collective unconscious be sufficient enough to really prepare yourself to understand the first two books that I've mentioned?

I have wondered if the OT accounts of longevity were actually lineages of firstborn sons of leaders who carry on the original name and identity as a bicameral viewpoint . ie Noah I, Noah II........ A Noah archetype, so to say.

Does your theory factor in psychedelics?

Have you read any Emanuel Swedenborg?

Gives new meaning to Mystery Meat…The brain a piece of meat that talks, gives orders to be obeyed, speaks foreign languages and gives fashion advice…Hamlet underestimated there being strange things in this world . And it never really went away…Paved over by consciousness and depends on the quality of paving. Like all those movies where the suburban development is built on top of a huge Indian burial ground and the fun begins.🦄🪿🍀🐊