Bicameralism: Confusion on Consciousness

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There is much confusion on the idea of the bicameral mind, one theory about the past of the human mind. A bicameral mind would not experience life and death the way that we do. People would continue to be present, at least in voice if not in image, even after their deaths to those who had known them in life. The entire theory is one of an entirely different sort of consciousness from one we experience, and this is often misunderstood.

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There are a number of essays that deal solely with the issue of misunderstandings about the theory of bicameralism and post-bicameral consciousness.
Confusion is to be expected, considering the complexity of the subject matter, involving multiple areas of scholarship. It was an ambitious work, to say the least.
It’s not an issue of awareness of death, since death wouldn’t have been perceived as post-bicameral people perceived it. Dead people, in a sense, didn’t die.

“Confusion is to be expected, considering the complexity of the subject matter, involving multiple areas of scholarship. It was an ambitious work, to say the least.”

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