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Originally Posted by dipayankar  Are we a part of a much larger civilisation? Else how come we evolved into this kind of intelligence so fast?? |
Julian Jaynes at the publication of his book "The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind", taught psychology at Princeton University.
At the heart of this book is the revolutionary idea that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but is a learned process brought into being out of an earlier hallucinatory mentality by cataclysm and catastrophe only 3000 years ago and still developing. The implications of this new scientific paradigm extend inot virtually every aspect of our pshycology, our history and culture, our religion---and indeed, our future. In the words of one reviewer, it is "a humbling text, the kind that reminds me most of us who make our living through thinking, how much thinking there is left to do."
"This book and this man's ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century. It renders whole shelves of books obsolete."
Columbus Dispatch