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While that book is fascinating and totally came out of left field when it was published, I don't think I would recommend it as an introduction to consciousness. The idea that people very similar to modern humans weren't self-aware as recent as the pharaohs is fascinating though!


That is very interesting. Know of any good links about the non self-aware people?


It was basically introduced in the book mentioned in the above post. You can read more about bicameralism here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism_(psychology)

(I'm pretty sure it's been disproved since, but he put forward a very interesting theory)

edit: err use the entire link, the parens didn't get included.




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