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Parker :
“I’m sure you’re familiar with the bicameral mind theory”
2025-12-02 16:57:10
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Vermillion :
"I'm sure you're familiar with this obscure theory I just learned about last week"
2025-12-02 01:41:33
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AlamIndah :
weird because the chinese has been writing self reflection a thousand years before
2025-12-01 19:27:28
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Edward Kozatek :
who doesn't know about bicameral mind theory
2025-12-03 00:55:46
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FyberTruck :
Back then, people didn’t separate thought from mythology. Every emotion and every impulse had a patron: a god of war for conflict, a god of love for desire, a god of harvest for survival, a god of mischief for chaos. When they told stories—or tried to explain their own behavior—they filtered it through that framework. It was their way of mapping consciousness before “consciousness” was even a concept. They externalized their inner world through gods because that was the only language they had for self-reflection. Then everything shifted. One singular, all-powerful God replaced the entire spectrum of divine personalities. Instead of many forces shaping human behavior, there was suddenly one authority responsible for all events, emotions, and meaning. That shift compressed the way we interpret reality. It collapsed a polyphonic understanding of the mind into a single narrative voice. And whether people notice it or not, that reframe changed how we understand ourselves. Consciousness hasn’t stood still—it’s been evolving alongside the stories we use to explain it. In that sense, it’s always been collective, always been shaped by the frameworks we inherit. The gods didn’t disappear; they just got absorbed into a modern, singular model of meaning.
2025-12-02 00:44:45
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MJR Schneider :
Why is everyone here acting Michael came up with this? The book he’s citing came out in 1976 this is not a new theory.
2025-12-02 14:37:14
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Nick :
Secularist worldview conflating pagan determinism in ancient history with a lack of consciousness.
2025-12-02 00:31:51
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Carlos Rodríguez 🇲🇽 :
Stupidest thing I’ve heard in a while.
2025-12-03 01:58:45
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PommieGamer 🇬🇧/🇦🇺 :
So we’re going to completely discount simpler explanations such as perhaps it was merely the writing style of the time, and instead leap to the conclusion that people hadn’t developed consciousness yet?
2025-12-02 20:27:32
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playboibugatti :
I’m disappointed, it seems like Michael doesn’t really know what consciousness is. Consciousness is not opinions, decisions, and desires. It’s more closely related to experience. Robots can have opinions and make decisions and have desires.
2025-12-02 00:12:30
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brunitoo :
i beg you guys, read Manifestation of Creation by Kain Vale, it will change your life…
2025-12-02 21:44:21
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autonomous_rex_ :
The Emergence of Consciousness and the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind was written in the 70s. This isn’t a new concept and has mostly been proven wrong.
2025-12-02 04:13:46
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hello :
Unfortunately. The theory falls apart when you gotta explain why there were still normal people at all during these times. Why did some resist, deceive, scheme when people have the voice of god in their head or whatever.
2025-12-02 15:41:57
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. :
Doesn’t answer the hard problem of consciousness
2025-12-02 03:27:45
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maxthewolf359 :
The voices started again telling me to “do it for the vine”
2025-12-01 23:38:38
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Hampton Lamar :
"I'm sure you're familiar with [something nobody has ever been familiar with]"
2025-12-02 03:39:42
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John :
Stories like the Iliad do that to evoke symbolism, not as a literal description of their motivations.
2025-12-01 22:30:33
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threepounderr :
Lowk bicameral mind theory kinda makes sense
2025-12-02 21:57:43
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Notyouraleks :
The first example just sounds like stylistic choice of the author
2025-12-03 00:45:25
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Stash :
To have voices “in your head” you have to be conscious of them.
2025-12-01 22:23:13
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Large Allen :
Equating what are story telling devices in what are essentially legends to actual thought processes is insane
2025-12-02 23:02:07
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Yo :
I really don’t buy this theory
2025-12-02 20:26:02
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lucas :
Does the theory still hold if you look at non-european writings though?
2025-12-03 01:34:21
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user7540320201936 :
… and Buddhism? It’s an entire painstakingly rigorous system (ontology, epistemology, phenomenology, ethics, contemplative practices, etc.) and the whole entire thing revolves around dismantling the near-ubiquitous illusion of the self.
2025-12-02 03:47:22
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ky :
VSauce when he thinks humans were confined to voices in their head for 99.999% of their evolutionary history
2025-12-02 01:53:24
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