There is absolutely know way to know this. He is literally making it up and just guessing
2026-10-16 22:06:31
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FinnM54 :
I really hate the bicameral mind theory twinge he’s been on recently. I think it sucks
2026-10-17 07:08:33
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DonAlexander :
Yet we had philosophers back then.. without consciousness? That’s not possible
2026-10-17 00:16:22
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Azad Salah Azadi :
So Sumerians were not conscious or self aware?
2026-10-17 03:06:26
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RockHardRhinoPill :
the statement "Athena then filled me with the courage to fight" is self referencial which is what consciousness is bro
2026-10-17 03:12:09
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Luckey_Stars_Astro :
I absolutely do not believe this.
2026-10-17 22:19:37
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Nae Nae :
how do we know this? we had advanced civilizations before that and have been around for so many thousands of years...
2026-10-16 05:12:33
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Logan Dials :
it's a fun theory.
2026-10-17 03:46:38
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thomas tucker :
That’s not true at all. There are many made structures older than that. The epic of Gilgamesh was 1,100 years before that.
2026-10-18 05:22:54
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J. Slonim Vargas :
What???? have you ever read Ecclesiastes?
2026-10-18 21:57:16
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Mike :
Guys this video is just cut poorly. Vsauce isn't making the claim himself, he's simply describing the bicameral mind theory. It's a theory proposed by psychologist Julian Jaynes.
2026-10-17 02:36:26
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chrisjoyner295 :
this theory he is talking about is absurd and is completely unverifiable so why waste time on this when we could be trying to solve modern problems
2026-10-17 03:27:23
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TruthIndeed :
nonsense
2026-10-17 22:31:00
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Phil :
What happened to vsauce💔🥀
2026-10-18 20:53:21
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WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot :
It's an interesting theory
2026-10-18 02:04:16
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Kenny :
If humans were not self aware from the beginning than we are no different than other animals and we have no soul
2026-10-17 13:56:51
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user7547407776450 :
Pretty sure he’s not correct
2026-10-17 01:08:21
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dark faeries :
Nonsense
2026-10-17 05:53:43
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forgottenlorebooks :
Nonsense.
2026-10-17 22:49:58
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Snoopygram 17 :
His example is flawed. In order to write a story, you need to put yourself in the mind of your protagonist. The fact that this amazing story exists proves we had consciousness back then and even further back. Read the stories and legends written by the Sumerians
2026-10-20 22:56:42
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dylzpillz :
Not true at all
2026-10-16 22:08:07
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Nathan Blake :
we have not solved the hard problem of consciousness, this is just conjecture.
2026-10-18 17:55:54
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Col-Co :
not true next
2026-10-20 17:40:40
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Aaron :
uh pretty sure the pyramids are older than 1000 bc
2026-10-19 02:07:28
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S'trahrisGorn :
This is completely untrue. Bicameral mind is just a (pretty dumb) idea a guy got while reading Homer, no historical or neuro research or anything like that.
2026-10-19 00:10:54
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