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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again? Archilochus

Saturday, April 18, 2026

Jaynes & the Dawn of Consciousness

Index:
0:00 The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind  
10:00 Consciousness generally  
17:11 What Jaynes means by consciousness MUH QUALIA 
19:43 What should we expect from the Bicameral Mind  
22:39 Emails and User Comments Economics, quantitative methods, Marxism, Big-Branded Nihilism, Emergence, Are rocks conscious?, J.F. Gariepy, Don't go to college. 
34:00 A Greek Vocabulary Lesson 
38:57 Le Bronze-Age Collapse Mindset (the Chad Achilles)  
43:05 The Eternal Odysseus and Solon  
44:50 Whomst are all these voices in my head?  
46:53 The Trump inside your head 
48:28 How to Organize a Bicameral Theocracy (Not saying it was aliens, but... 
54:39 Amos and Ecclesiastes  
57:53 The Rise of the Fedora in the Middle East  
59:28 The Words for the Bicameral Voices  
1:01:46 Prophecy  
1:07:20 Music and Poetry  
1:10:40 Psychological states, schizophrenia and possession  
1:11:43 The best of the theory and lacunae  
1:14:58 Extensions and the Julian Jaynes Society  
1:16:17 Big-Braned Levels of Consciousness  
1:18:00 Anime pillows

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yawn
Wrong, imprecise use of words... that's all.

OBVIOUSLY!!! Ancient people had different Theory of mind.

Anonymous said...

Here it is.

As example of difference between "old and outdated" and "new bright Truth". ;-p

Newest experiment in bonobo-linguistics -- their language *HAVE* compositions of "words" with non-trivial meaning. ;-)

Anonymous said...

Or... I am not bent on trying to disappoint you, am I?
But.
Here -- MuLTEE (Multicellularity Long Term Evolution Experiment)
Their latest discover. About going diploid. ;-)

THAT IS how Evolution works.
And NO "ideal forms".

Except... if you'll agree voluntaristicly -- that any shit that happens... is ideal. ;-p

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Yes, Dr, Pangloss.