Re:The “bicameral mind” 30 years on: A reappraisal of Jaynes...
by goto11 on Sunday November 25, 2018 @05:10PM
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So what could theoretically disprove the theory?
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Re:The “bicameral mind” 30 years on: A reappraisal of Jaynes...
by akvadrako on Sunday November 25, 2018 @10:05PM
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I'm sure you can think of some things, but as long as it agrees with the available evidence and is the "best explanation", which includes some subjective and objective criteria, it's a valuable theory.
Re:The “bicameral mind” 30 years on: A reappraisal of Jaynes...
by goto11 on Monday November 26, 2018 @02:02AM
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You specifically mention Popper. Poppers criteria of falsification states that it is not enough that a theory can explain everything. He observed that a lot of pseudoscience (astrology, marxism, freudian psychology at the time) really could be used to explain everything and couldn't really be disproved by any observation. Real scientific theories on the other hand could be used to make predictions which could be verified or shown to be wrong.