On 02 Dec 2017, at 04:55, Brent Meeker wrote:
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."
I share this feeling. Jayne uses "consciousness" in a more particular
sense than we usually use it here, though, it is more the high level
reflective consciousness, and not the primitive one we share with most
animals---and perhaps plants ... :)
Bruno
Brent
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