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Jaynes argument makes a lot more sense when you take the modern psychiatric view that the way we respond to voices in our head is socially constructed. His clai
by srtjstjsj 6y ago
Jaynes argument makes a lot more sense when you take the modern psychiatric view that the way we respond to voices in our head is socially constructed. His claim that it is literally caused by the corpus collosum was bad biology (which was not his field).
- mr_toad 6y ago> the way we respond to voices in our head Voices plural? I doubt most of society experiences such a phenomenon, and if they do they’re not talking about it.
- adamjb 6y agoThe decomposition of the self into competing voices is a fairly common idea. It's present in phrases like "part of me thinks/wants X" or "I am of two minds about X". It's a key part of the whole Freudian id, ego, superego thing and related motifs like the devil on one shoulder and the angel on the other.