BICAMERAL MIND

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Wednesday, March 1, 2006

Poetry: the raft that saved Greek consciousness...

The breakdown of the bicameral mind in Greece coincide with a series of migrations and dispersions of the people, who paradoxically create a new mentality thanks to the persistence, during the dispersion time, of the poetry. The well known fact of this period, which goes from the 1200 to 1000 B.C.,... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, October 31, 2005

HAPPY SAMHEIN!!

The holiday known as "Halloween" was originally called "Samhain" a Celtic word meaning "Summer's End." Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, October 22, 2005

--- THE REFUSAL TO BE CONSCIOUS ---

~ ~ ~ The Refusal To Be Conscious ~ ~ ~ © by Maurizio A. Bisogno 2005 In the history of humanity, there are several phenomena, more or less organized cultural attempts, which go through our present time and that are useful to show us how the human being "refuses" his condition of conscious being.... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Hallucinations in primitive societies played a major role.

There are two major studies in Anthropology and that provide evidences in favour of the thesis that in the daily lives of primitive societies hallucinations played a major role; and we have already stressed the relevance of this observation for the bicameral mind theory: hallucinations in primitive... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

WHEN To HEAR is to OBEY you wish to KNOW who's talking to you.

"Sound is the least controllable of all senses modalities, and it is this that is the medium of that most intricate of all evolutionary achievements, language." "To hear is actually a king of obedience. Indeed, both words come from the same root and therefore were probably the same word originally.... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, October 8, 2005

The VOICES in YOUR mind are the RESULT of your STRESSFUL life.

The question of hallucinatory voices is an important one for several reasons; let’s see together some of them. 1. During the bicameral mind state, men could hear voices to guide them during the stressful moments - and those voices where considered the gods voices - they were believed 2. In normal... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, October 6, 2005

HALLUCINATORY VOICES _ where are your gods?

The bicameral mind foregoes the conscious man. Our brain is divided into two hemispheres: one on the right and the on the left side. We use them for different tasks, as they have a sort of specialisation in what they are capable of doing. The bicameral mind man did not have a language that could... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, October 5, 2005

NO LANGUAGE? NO CONSCIOUSNESS!!

The consciousness comes after the language has seen its birth. The understanding of consciousness depends on the study of language and its evolution. The Anciet Greek age of the Iliad is essentially behaviouristic; that means that a conflict would rise between two actions and not between two... Sign in to see full entry.

FIRST POST IN THIS BLOG - Some questions about consciousness

Since when you can say that you have a consciousness? Is it your consciousness always present to yourself? Do you have to be conscious all the time otherwise you think that you aren’t in control of your day? It is funny how the observation of our inner life is the most difficult and, at the same,... Sign in to see full entry.

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This blog aims at relating understandings about the bicameral mind (Julian Jaynes) and its developments or criticisms. Often it will be like a block notes. All material in this blog is copyrighted to M.A.BISOGNO.

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