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> a different mode of cognition than the typical linearized, rational sort of thought, that is able to leverage our ability to quickly and subconsciously make i

> a different mode of cognition than the typical linearized, rational sort of thought, that is able to leverage our ability to quickly and subconsciously make inferences, associations, and snap judgments about phenomena, instead of using slow, deliberate, deductive forms of reasoning. I mentioned this in my other comment, but you don't even really need to get this deep about it -- it gives people a justification for making essentially _random_ decisions. It's not always the best thing to do in many contexts to make the "logically correct" decision. There are many cases where being unpredictable is a benefit, or people doing new or unusual things can lead to progress, or just getting over the hump of not being able to decide what to do.

ryandv 3y ago
Yes, Julian Jaynes also expands on this point in his book, "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" and the section on "Divination." He posits that forms of divination, augury, sortilege, etc... were invented as attempts by newly "post-bicameral" man to once more hear the "voices of the gods" that would give them authorization or assurance that their course of action was correct; an attempt to recapture the bicameral era, when "free will" as a concept did not even exist, and all of one's actions were in fact orchestrated by the gods (where Jaynes presupposes that what were referred to as "gods" were actually psychological phenomena).