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Is it just me or is anybody else also reminded of "The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral mind" while reading this ? I have a hunch tha
by eicossa 6y ago
Is it just me or is anybody else also reminded of "The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral mind" while reading this ?
I have a hunch that ancient peoples could not conceive of a state of clinical depression. That comes along with the modern emphasis on "me" and "my goals" and "my desires"
As Soren Kierkegaard put it "Anxiety is the price of freedom"
- mrphoebs 6y agoThanks for the mention of julian jaynes' book, never heard of it before, seems like quite an interesting read.
- darawk 6y agoSlate Star Codex has a really great review of it, if you want to get a more in-depth idea of it before actually reading it: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/01/book-review-origin-of-consciousness-in-the-breakdown-of-the-bicameral-mind/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/01/book-review-origin-of-...
- mrphoebs 6y agoStill in the midst of reading it and it's been fascinating from the get go. Thanks for the link.
- knolax 6y agoEvery time I am reminded of that book I become more and more convinced that humanities people are not fully sentient but are in fact advanced Markov chains.