On 12/1/2017 6:35 PM, David Nyman wrote:


    I think it likely that ability in humans co-evolved with the
    development of language.  Did you ever read Julian Jaynes "The
    Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind"?


You betcha! A paradigm shifter if ever I read one though it's many years since. It always struck me as perfectly plausible in general direction even if no particular detail of Jaynes's speculations were precisely accurate.

Yeah, I started it with the attitude, "That's an interesting idea but there couldn't possibly be any evidence to support it even if it's true."  But when I finished it I thought, "Damn, he didn't prove his theory but he did pretty well supporting it."

Brent

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