What if the inner voice we call “I” is only 3,000 years old… and not everyone needs it to be fully conscious?
A deep dive into bicameral minds, neurodiversity, and why some of us might still think like the ancients.
https://medium.com/@christian.gajewski/when-the-gods-fell-silent-julian-jaynes-the-birth-of-the-self-and-what-autism-teaches-us-about-87344e50bed2
#Consciousness #Neuroscience #Neurodiversity #PhilosophyOfMind #JulianJaynes
as for #shakespeare, while #HaroldBloom was quite mad, i really admire the passion and candor of his ‘bardolatry’ and enjoy his writing on the plays waaaaay out of proportion to their analytical value (analytical ≠ ‘critical’ of course)
whatever else he was, bloom was the #JulianJaynes of his field, which i dig
Quote of the day: "The function of meter in poetry is to drive the electrical activity of the brain, and most certainly to relax the normal emotional inhibitions of both chanter and listener. A similar thing occurs when the voices of schizophrenics speak in scanning rhythms or rhyme." Julian Jaynes
#poetry #chant #meter #schizophrenia #julianjaynes #quote #quoteoftheday
Hard to whittle that down to 7, on the bubble:
- The C Programming Language #BrianKernighan #DennisRitchie
- The Crucified God #JurgenMoltmann
- The Upside Down Kingdom #DonaldKraybill
- The Little Schemer #GeraldSussman
- Think and Grow Rich #NapoleonHill
- The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind #JulianJaynes
- Strength to Love #MartinLutherKing
People and books that helped form who I am today:
#GrahamGreene
#JohnUpdike
#WalkerPercy
#kurtvonnegutjr
#JohnIrving
#RalphEllison
#HermannHesse
#LorenEiseley
#JamesBaldwin
#JohnSteinbeck
#RayBradbury
#FrankHerbert
#StrangerInAStrangeLand
#MalcomX
#KimStanleyRobinson
#JulianJaynes
#SomeTimesAGreatNotion
#WendellBerry
#WhatArePeopleFor
#EdwardAbbey
#DesertSolitaire
#TomRussell
#CarlHiaasen
#MichaelPollan
#BotanyOfDesire
#PattiSmith
#MichaelStipe
#DavidSedaris
#CormacMcCarthy
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