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Re:Ask HN: Where does consciousness come from? by yters on Friday December 19, 2008 @11:17AM (#403460)
That is very interesting. Know of any good links about the non self-aware people?
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Re:Ask HN: Where does consciousness come from? by yan on Friday December 19, 2008 @12:19PM (#403539)
It was basically introduced in the book mentioned in the above post. You can read more about bicameralism here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism_(psychology)

(I'm pretty sure it's been disproved since, but he put forward a very interesting theory)

edit: err use the entire link, the parens didn't get included.

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