Ancestral Hallucinations: The Bicameral Mind

A highly controversial speculative hypothesis. Julian Jaynes read ancient texts and arrived at a unique and wholly original hypothesis: Our ancestors did not have consciousness. He reasoned that their brains did not work in concert as ours do today and instead they "hear" the messages from one hemisphere as the ethereal voice of gods. Is there evidence for this? Have we learned something knew about human psychology? We weigh in on the relatively utility of Jaynes' bicameral mind, for what it's worth.

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Links:

1. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1977/5/12/the-lonely-odyssey-of-julian-jaynes/
2. https://www.julianjaynes.org/about/about-jaynes-theory/overview/
3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
4. https://www.academia.edu/7100194/Julian_Jaynes_and_the_Promise_of_the_Other_Psychology_Cultural_Historical_Approaches_to_Psyche
5. https://youtu.be/ll12kPSi1Xc

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