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The Bicameral mind is a psychological hypothesis suggests that American diplomats heard the voice of their inner consciousness for the first time, and thought it was a Cuban directed energy weapon. (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 21 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

Real talk, bicameral hypothesis always felt to me like a way to sneak colonial apologia in through a back door. "No, it's okay that we're killing these natives for their land. They're not technologically sophisticated, so they're not really people."

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago

    It's also just historically nonsense. The epic of Gilgamesh, a thousand years before the Odyssey and the so-called development of conciousness, clesrly shows humans as thinking beings with their own internal voice. In literature no less! There are cpuntless examples of this from across the world.

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    • [–] 20 points 3 months ago

    Yes, i voted for trump. But the demons told me to, it was the dark gods, not me

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    [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    I'm sure they'll listen to Reason.

    spoilerBecause I realised explaining would just be more confusing: in Snow Crash, where cerebral bicamerality is a key plot point, the Mafia^TM^ let Hiro Protagonist borrow Reason, a nuclear-powered rail-minigun, so he can hijack an oil tanker.

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    [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    The only value of bicameral mind theory is being a plot point for the Hosts reaching self-awareness in Westworld

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    [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    I’ll take ”headlines that I did not expect to read on my Sunday morning doom scroll” for $500 please, Alex.

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