Bicameral Symmetries

Drawing by Four Rules: Graphite - Square Paper - Abstraction - Symmetry In The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Julian Jaynes posits that language developed before consciousness.  In other words, there was a time when humans were motivated and inspired to act by forces, directives, and voices beyond their cognitive control.  Perhaps quite complex vocabularies that expressed communal functions and purposes, and yet seemed to...  [more]