Real talk, bicameral hypothesis always felt to me like a way to sneak colonial apologia in through a back door. “No, it’s okay that we’re killing these natives for their land. They’re not technologically sophisticated, so they’re not really people.”
It’s also just historically nonsense. The epic of Gilgamesh, a thousand years before the Odyssey and the so-called development of conciousness, clesrly shows humans as thinking beings with their own internal voice. In literature no less! There are cpuntless examples of this from across the world.
“it wasn’t until Greek philosophers used their big brains that humans learned to think for the first time! no, I will not be providing evidence, thank you” :)
100%
Yes, i voted for trump. But the demons told me to, it was the dark gods, not me
I’m sure they’ll listen to Reason.
spoiler
Because I realised explaining would just be more confusing: in Snow Crash, where cerebral bicamerality is a key plot point, the MafiaTM let Hiro Protagonist borrow Reason, a nuclear-powered rail-minigun, so he can hijack an oil tanker.
The only value of bicameral mind theory is being a plot point for the Hosts reaching self-awareness in Westworld
I’ll take ”headlines that I did not expect to read on my Sunday morning doom scroll” for $500 please, Alex.
