The trouble is that even if Jayne is right, none of the people who experienced life like this still exist. We've contaminated the pool of test subjects, 100%.

The trouble is that even if Jayne is right, none of the people who experienced life like this still exist. We've contaminated the pool of test subjects, 100%. This isn't the same as being non-falsifiable, we understand what resources would be required to test it... we just don't have them available. > How would you check, upon meeting the ancient Greeks, whether they are bicameral? Interviews. Observation. There would be communication anomalies. Some would no doubt claim these were merely translation errors, but it would become increasingly apparent that explanation was insufficient. It would probably filter through our preconcpcetions such that they were universally (and profoundly) mentally ill or defective. The big trouble here is, having met them, we might only have a few years to study them. I suspect that our form of consciousness might be contagious, especially to their younger demographic. So by the time we would almost start understanding it, it would be gone.