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From: bickel@nprdc.arpa (Steven Bickel)
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Subject: Re: Thought/Emotion/Feeling
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Date: 12 Jan 89 02:09:37 GMT
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In article <2986@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee) writes:
>
>Jaynes' hypothesis seems to me to have the clear implication that
>there are living peoples who go through their lives unconscious.
>Yet Jaynes offers no evidence that this is so, and it is pretty
>implausible.  An anthropologist would be the best authority on
>this point, at any rate.
>
  I believe Jaynes contends it is more like unconscious material that
  dominates consciousness.  His bicameral mind means split into two
  distinct parts, conscious and unconscious ( as current psychological
  theories support). Language, thoughts etc. can become internalized
  and play significant roles in our conscious behavior.  I believe
  one of Jaynes main points that the unconscious motivations are much more
  dominant components in individuals with less "ego" structure (conscious).
  In early humans people may have been literally hearing unconscious voices
  because the conscious structures were non-dominant.

Steve Bickel