Synopsis:
- Ancient texts were composed by nonconscious minds
- Human beings were guided by "hallucinations" (eg, God)
- Hallucinations would form in the right hemisphere of the brain and would be communicated to the left hemisphere of the brain, which would then receive them as commands
- Language did not serve as conscious thought: it served as communication between the two hemispheres of the brain
- The bicameral mind began breaking down under the pressure caused by the complexity of the environment
- The hallucinated voices no longer provided automatic guidance for survival
- Consciousness was invented by human beings through a process that entailed the loss of belief in gods
- Awareness of an action tends to follow the action
- Awareness of an action bears no influence on the outcome
- Consciousness requires metaphors and analogy
- Metaphors and analogies map the functions of the right hemisphere into the left hemisphere and make the bicameral mind obsolete
- Consciousness expanded by creating more and more metaphors and analogies
- Ultimately, consciousness is a metaphor-generated model of the world
- Ancient texts were composed by nonconscious minds
- Human beings were guided by "hallucinations" (eg, God)
- Hallucinations would form in the right hemisphere of the brain and would be communicated to the left hemisphere of the brain, which would then receive them as commands
- Language did not serve as conscious thought: it served as communication between the two hemispheres of the brain
- The bicameral mind began breaking down under the pressure caused by the complexity of the environment
- The hallucinated voices no longer provided automatic guidance for survival
- Consciousness was invented by human beings through a process that entailed the loss of belief in gods
- Awareness of an action tends to follow the action
- Awareness of an action bears no influence on the outcome
- Consciousness requires metaphors and analogy
- Metaphors and analogies map the functions of the right hemisphere into the left hemisphere and make the bicameral mind obsolete
- Consciousness expanded by creating more and more metaphors and analogies
- Ultimately, consciousness is a metaphor-generated model of the world
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