[eicossa]

Is it just me or is anybody else also reminded of "The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral mind" while reading this ?

I have a hunch that ancient peoples could not conceive of a state of clinical depression. That comes along with the modern emphasis on "me" and "my goals" and "my desires"

As Soren Kierkegaard put it "Anxiety is the price of freedom"

[mrphoebs]

Thanks for the mention of julian jaynes' book, never heard of it before, seems like quite an interesting read.

[darawk]

Slate Star Codex has a really great review of it, if you want to get a more in-depth idea of it before actually reading it: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/01/book-review-origin-of-...

[mrphoebs]

Still in the midst of reading it and it's been fascinating from the get go. Thanks for the link.

[knolax]

Every time I am reminded of that book I become more and more convinced that humanities people are not fully sentient but are in fact advanced Markov chains.