Oh, we need to innovate for sure. My point is that existing systems my seem old to us as individuals, but they are actually new in terms of human history. Western civilization has been on a trajectory of atomization for 1000 years. All that is bound to collapse eventually.
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I think what self "is" is an open question (that ties into "what is it even for"), so it may or may not be an anomaly. I am somewhat partial to hypothesis that "self" is nature's weird lame way of implementing an inter-process bus of sorts, but it is way early for strong opinions
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JULIAN JAYNES
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Bicameralism is an especially good crackpot (I like the term, don't mean it derisively) theory. Probably not true but full of interesting nooks and crannies to provoke further thought.
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yeah, same. "wrong in a way that has intriguing implications" is an interesting subgenre.
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see also: the career of Terrence McKenna (though to be fair he was actually right about some important things)
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