i, being of a particular age, immediately thought in terms of scientology, jim jones, and all that. being from texas, i was eating peyote in the age of timothy leary and ended up in northern california doing art at ucsc. and reading this, i could not help but think of julian jaynes and “the origins of consciousness and the bicameral mind”…not that it is completely pertinent to your essay, but that it conjured the thought. were i not on a very limited pension, i would gladly support your work.
I'd love to know whether Ziz developed her theory based on Jaynes, and also how much other Rationalists discuss or take it seriously. Scott Alexander wrote an essay on Jaynes that was good. But the whole subject of the brain's two hemispheres, let alone Jaynes's ideas, seem pretty marginal to contemporary neuroscience afaik.
i, being of a particular age, immediately thought in terms of scientology, jim jones, and all that. being from texas, i was eating peyote in the age of timothy leary and ended up in northern california doing art at ucsc. and reading this, i could not help but think of julian jaynes and “the origins of consciousness and the bicameral mind”…not that it is completely pertinent to your essay, but that it conjured the thought. were i not on a very limited pension, i would gladly support your work.
I'd love to know whether Ziz developed her theory based on Jaynes, and also how much other Rationalists discuss or take it seriously. Scott Alexander wrote an essay on Jaynes that was good. But the whole subject of the brain's two hemispheres, let alone Jaynes's ideas, seem pretty marginal to contemporary neuroscience afaik.