@sarahdoingthing @cwage You already know my take on Jaynes, I think
@cwage @sarahdoingthing Whereas Jaynes posits the turnover affecting the early Greeks. So apparently it's a hundredth-monkey/gaia thing.
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@cwage@sarahdoingthing Except the hundredth-monkey hypothesis is horseshit. Theory requires some mystic psychic disaster worldwide. -
@cwage@sarahdoingthing Even if you buy into Burroughsian language-virus sci-fi, even *smallpox* didn't reach these cultures. -
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@sarahdoingthing@cwage How many bits do you have to transmit to infect a brain with analytic consciousness? -
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@sarahdoingthing@St_Rev just a mind virus to reinforce us vs. them, whoever the parties may be -
@cwage I don't think I understand - physical what? -
@sarahdoingthing biological. concrete vs. consciousness -- i.e. "you are wrong" vs. "you are thinking wrong and i can change that" - 2 more replies
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