Re: Consciousness

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>Julian Jaynes, THE ORIGIN OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE BREAKDOWN OF
>THE BICAMERAL BRAIN. ...
....Consciousness emerges from trance, schizophrenia-like
>condition with "auditory hallucinations" from one side of the brain
>directing the other side what to do. This persists right into modern
>times, with all of us doing a lot of living in an unconscious state.

--- My guess -- seems like this supposition could have been tested, ie, the
conscious psych-scientists would be able to test for unconsciousness,
especially when there were enough scientists to ensure that at least a few
of them would be conscious at any one time to enable tests for
unconsciousness in test subjects. That is, tests of cognizance of time
duration, etc, checked against an utterly uncaring unconscious entity, such
as a clock...

This is one of those very strange moments when I'm not sure myself whether
I'm joking or serious, mad or brilliant. (Perhaps that proves the
Bicameral point?) As in peer-review, there can be no in-between.

Seriously, though, I never heard anything good about this book, and it has
had 15 years to earn something if it had had smething to it. -- wade

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