Short thread on Greek perception of color. Nietzsche actually thought they were colorblind.https://twitter.com/nastyinmuhtaxi/status/995840132367507457 …
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Which is logical when we consider that Greek for soul is psukhè, literally "breath", which would logically be located in the chest... only with Plato do we witness an affirmation of the head as the center of human consciousness, and the lengths he goes to, in order to prove it...
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...should hint at the fact that this was NOT common knowledge among the Greeks. He compares the head to a sphere, and since the sphere is the "perfect" shape, it follows that the "perfect" part of man should be in the head... just like the perfect spheres (planets) contain gods.
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damn, what a badass proof
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so I just finished reading through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism_(psychology) … and the thing is interesting but... I'm quite unsure about the Iliad being a good proof of pre-breakdown bicameralism
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Mythology seems like a good example but Homeric heroes have a rich interior and are actually constantly self-narrativizing, good examples of this through Iliad book VI, especially Helen's speech and Hector when he walks into his house looking for Andromache.
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The line Jaynes quotes there as Iliad 6:117 is a rather complex line... translations often disagree, but the two lines are usually read together as "the black hide of the rim which ran round the outside of the bossed shield beat upon his neck and ankles"pic.twitter.com/jOo8GYMTkC
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Yeah the "consciousness is in the head" bit wasn't about the ancient Greeks but about our current conceptualization.
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I'm reading your thread right now, just throwing comments here as they come to me, might actually just comment there for convenience
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