The earliest place I’ve seen this is the introduction to Julian Jaynes “Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind” https://www.julianjayne

The earliest place I’ve seen this is the introduction to Julian Jaynes “Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind” https://www.julianjaynes.org/resources/books/ooc/en/introduction-the-problem-of-consciousness/ https://www.julianjaynes.org/resources/books/ooc/en/introduc... The way he does it is quite compelling - we do make metaphors of the mind to current tech. This was written well before current computer neural networks, and gives a good account of the sound version of this argument.