>Something deeper is happening when I am able to correctly identify dogs that is unexplainable, at least by me. There is an interesting experiment you can do t

>Something deeper is happening when I am able to correctly identify dogs that is unexplainable, at least by me. There is an interesting experiment you can do to directly demonstrate this to yourself From Julian Jaynes' The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind > Take any two unequal objects, such as a pen and pencil or two unequally filled glasses of water, and place them on the desk in front of you. Then, partly closing your eyes to increase your attention to the task, pick up each one with the thumb and forefinger and judge which is heavier. Now introspect on everything you are doing. You will find yourself conscious of the feel of the objects against the skin of your fingers, conscious of the slight downward pressure as you feel the weight of each, conscious of any protuberances on the sides of the objects, and so forth. And now the actual judging of which is heavier. Where is that? Lo! the very act of judgment that one object is heavier than the other is not conscious. It is somehow just given to you by your nervous system. If we call that process of judgment thinking, we are finding that such thinking is not conscious at all. A simple experiment, yes, but extremely important. It demolishes at once the entire tradition that such thought processes are the structure of the conscious mind.