Keith Hudson wrote:
> A superb piece of writing!
Thank you, Keith.
> (Also, it was good to hear Julian Jaynes mentioned again! Somehow
> his book is lasting. I came across someone on one of my dogwalks
> recently who was reading him.)
I think JJ was on to *something* but I'm not at all convinced that he
got the mechanism right. The existing neuroscience doesn't seem to
match up well enough. But what do I know? I've long thought that
some kind of hysteresis, effected by the paucity of connections
between hemispheres (compared to the intra-hemisphere connections),
plays a role in consciousness and if I can ever manage to work my way
through Gerald Edelman's _The Remembered Present_, I might even have
that thought confirmed by someone who *does* know something. :-)
More entertaining than JJ's own book is a science fiction story
(novella, maybe?) that folows an individual who experiences the
"breakdown of the bicameral mind" in a society based on JJ's evocation
of a bicameral-minded culture. Very clever and entertaining.
Regrettably, I can't recall the title or author and a quick google
didn't turn it up.
- Mike
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Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~.
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