From the cover Profpat,
"When Julian Jaynes . . .speculates that until late in the second millenium B.C. men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis through all the corroborative evidence . . ." John Updike, in The New Yorker
Having just finished
The Origin of Consciousness, I myself feel something like Keats' Cortez staring out at the Pacific. or at least like the early reviewers of Darwin or Freud. I'm not quite sure what to make this new territory; but its expanse lies before me and I am startled by its power." Edward Profitt, in
Commonweal
I will attempt to find the answer to this in the book Prof.
I read it randomly and consider it a referential tool.
He is speaking of two dis-similar consciousness's, one progressing out of the other though it appears we could be (or did) digress from a certain higher point ( The garden of eden metaphor?)or degree in antiquity, with the formation of the I and Me concept in relative consciousness.
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Originally Posted by Profpat  Hi Drifter;
Why 3,000 years ago?
I believe "civilization and it's discontents" started ~4,000 BC, or 6,000years ago. Thats when writing was invented and the wheel and when history and commerce started.
Best to you,
Pat |