I’m 40 years late to the party, but I can attest that Jaynes’s “On the Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind” is a truly wild read. The argument is like a beautiful, somehow familiar, yet totally alien cathedral; one wants to study the architecture.
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I enjoyed Dawkins’s answer: “either complete rubbish or a work of consummate genius, nothing in between”
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You should also read David Gelernter’s “The Muse in the Machine”, in part of which he references and responds to Jaynes. Very under-appreciated!
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