Post 7 of my 8-part “Intuitive Self-Models” series: “Hearing Voices, and Other Hallucinations” https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/k8uMmw45k3qp8LPNc/intuitive-self-models-7-hearing-voices-and-other
[Intuitive self-models] 7. Hearing Voices, and Other Hallucinations — LessWrong
The main thrust of this post is an opinionated discussion of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind in §7.4, and then some discussion of how hallucinations and delusions arise from schizophrenia and mania (§7.5), and from psychotic depression and BPD (§7.6). But first—what exactly does this have to do with intuitive self-models? A whole lot, it turns out! …
