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Fascinating hypothesis that argues we human beings were once unicameral in brain function meaning that myth superstition possibly even hallucinations mixed with our rational mind fairly far into our consciousness of self as human beings until the split into hemispheric function occurred

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Seemingly outrageous theories argued for with sound reasoning and exhaustive citations

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I had to read slowly and then reread paragraphs to discern the message that he was trying to convey

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Personally regarding the middle eastern prophets i have long thought that many of them were in the sun too long experiencing what jaynes refers to as hallucinations from being in the desert alone with no companions or books to read since literature was not yet invented and the creators of our religions were all uneducated illiterates

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This is a keeper much like the book doubt

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I dont think you can get what jaynes is getting at without going at least a 100 pages in

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The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mindjulian jaynesprior to reading dawkins the god delusion i had no knowledge of julian jaynes nor his thesis