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sparrowhawk  ·  3188 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Gods, Voice-Hearing and the Bicameral Mind

A couple semesters ago, I had a class in which I was assigned to write a research paper about some aspect of the Bible's Old Testament. I tossed around the idea of writing about Julian Jaynes's theory and its implications for the earliest books of the Bible, but I couldn't come up with anything to say that Jaynes hadn't already said (except 'man, wouldn't that be cool.')

I'm skeptical, especially since there's not really any way to prove Jaynes right or wrong. Still, wouldn't it be cool?





OftenBen  ·  3187 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's probably just naivete, but I like thinking about stuff like this. There's no real way to prove/disprove it, but it provides an interesting alternative perspective for considering history/mythology/etc.