The Changing Mind with Marcel Kuijsten
Title: The Changing Mind
Subtitle: Julian Jaynes, the Bicameral Mind and the Evolution of Consciousness
Guest: Marcel Kuijsten
What if the way human beings experience their own minds has not always been the same?
In 1976, psychologist Julian Jaynes proposed one of the most radical theories about the human mind ever published: that the introspective consciousness we take for granted may not be an immutable feature of human nature, but the product of a relatively recent cultural transformation.
Jaynes argued that ancient humans once operated according to what he called the bicameral mind, in…
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