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From: feit@sunybcs.uucp (Elissa Feit)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Thought/Emotion/Feeling
Keywords: bicameral mind
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Date: 17 Jan 89 20:59:55 GMT
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In article <1320@arctic.nprdc.arpa> bickel@nprdc.arpa (Steven Bickel) writes:
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>  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....

>Steve Bickel


Jaynes was referring to a two-chambered brain, literally the left and
right hemispheres.  His theory was, until further evolution of the
corpus callosum (which he supposed to have happened, oh, after _The
Odyssey_, but before completion of _The Iliad_) early man "heard"
voices from his right hemisphere, and interpreted these to be the
voices of gods.





Elissa  Feit	(feit@cs.buffalo.edu
		 feit@sunybcs.bitnet)