Posted by KRICO on January 08, 2001 at 21:48:18:
In Reply to: Re: When everything you know is wrong . . . posted by kendricks on January 08, 2001 at 21:03:48:
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I've read it...It's an excellent and thought provoking book, appearing in hardcover some 25 years ago...Jaynes' ideas were ridiculed by the academic establishment because he didn't have a Phd... Most kids can't remember much further back then to the years when they began to speak...as if the visual images and sensorial experiences of existence need the catalyst of language (sound symbols) in order to cement them into or perhpas even "build" conciousness...they probably exist in that bicameral miasma... How about Jared Diamond's (UCLA) "Guns, Germs and Steel"...about the triumph (if ya wanna call it that) of the European cultures over the entire planet and the Americas specifically? |
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