Bicameral mentality
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title:
Bicameral mentality
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Bicameral mentality is a hypothesis introduced by Julian Jaynes who argued human ancestors as late as the ancient Greeks did not consider emotions and desires as stemming from their own minds but as the consequences of actions of gods external to themselves. The theory posits that the human mind once operated in a state in which cognitive functions were divided between one part of the brain that appears to be "speaking" and a second part that listens and obeys—a bicameral mind—and that the break
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Hypothesis in psychology
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameral_mentality
date created:
2005-07-06T19:19:37Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T20:26:41Z
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