Re:The “bicameral mind” 30 years on: A reappraisal of Jaynes...
by jnbiche on Sunday November 25, 2018 @02:39PM
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> There would be no collectively determined subjective language to refer to one another and to oneself.
Well said.
If it seems unlikely to anyone that society could transition to the state described to one where they have a full conception of self, just think of all the societies that didn't have any concept of zero. Yet they now use zero in their everyday life.
Like zero, self is a concept that now seems hard to imagine not having. Yet we know for a fact that societies at one time had no idea of zero.
Well said.
If it seems unlikely to anyone that society could transition to the state described to one where they have a full conception of self, just think of all the societies that didn't have any concept of zero. Yet they now use zero in their everyday life.
Like zero, self is a concept that now seems hard to imagine not having. Yet we know for a fact that societies at one time had no idea of zero.