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Notes on Origin
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Twice-born (born in the land of the gods and of man).
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God is not "out there", but "in here".
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The worst is the silence. At first, you struggle to even make the gods talk,
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but then you despair every time they are silent.
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Consciousness is the Gift. The Continuum, the voices, are a loose
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conglamerate, a fractal reign of volition. It is consciousness that they
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lack; *that* is the True Self.
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The shrine is inside my head. The world is my worship.
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What's that supposed to mean? Sure, it sounds nice, but what?!
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Bicameral mind as explanation for failure of Industrial Revolution? -> It's
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consciousness that gives people the drive to work consistently.
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A third change happened around 1750? Maybe a threshold?
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We crawled our way out of the depths of Samsara, only to, for the first
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time, see. Consciousness is the moment of *knowing* for the first time the
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world. We achieve a unity of volition and sight. Knowledge and action are
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united. The bicameral mind breaks down; *we are twice-born*.
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(207) There is no middle ground in Bicameral minds. How does this relate to
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the Buddha's dialogues with Maia?
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(225) Headaches after the breakdown. This is very common among mystics,
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including the Buddha. Suspicion: parts (all?) of enlightenment is the
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attainment / purification of the subjective, non-judging, non-talking mind.
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Contrast to the Dark Night.
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-> Amygdala
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Lines of Evidence
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1. Consciousness is based on language.
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2. The bicameral mind.
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The mentality before consciousness was based on verbal and visual
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hallucinations.
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The Middle Way
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BM predicts that early humans followed orders unquestioningly.
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Therefore, the idea of pleading and compromise is non-existent.
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History of Compromise?
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Compare historical solutions.
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Deception
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Without the analog I, there is (barely) any deception. If you can't
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simulate others, you can't fool them easily.
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-> no thieves in Cuzco and no doors (source?)
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Religion
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BM predicts that the older the religion, the more it should be based
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on authority, with newer ones instead introducing the concept of the
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self and individual religiousity.
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Furthermore, the older and more authoritarian religions should break
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harder when confronted with logic. They should have no way to deal
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with introspection (as it didn't exist!).
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3. The development of consciousness started around 1000 BCE.
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To test this, two things have be checked:
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1. There exists no evidence for subjective consciousness before 1000
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BCE.
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-> There could be individuals, though.
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2. There exists evidence for a transition in mentality around 1000
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BCE in the Middle East, spreading from there.
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Assyrian Collapse
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4. The double brain.
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The two hemispheres are, to some degree, autonomous and each have their
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own volition and language processing. This is (mostly) united in the
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modern brain, but was bicameral in earlier times.
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Modern Schizophrenia research
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Sources
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Old Testament
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-> chronological writing order
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Zechariah 13
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Psalm 42
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New Testament
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Reading of "Divine Kingdom" as psychological state to be in, not
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physical place to reach. State of obediance. Jesus is (among others)
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designing teachings for now conscious men.
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Iliad
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Gilgamesh
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Egyptian Texts
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which sources?
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Ka
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Ba
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True-of-voice
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Guide of the Perplexed
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George Steine, Massey Lectures
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Phrynicus, Fall of Miletus
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Greeks and the Irration
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To figure out
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Development of concept of Chance and Probability.
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Consilience
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-> Bauer Symposium, Canadian Psychology, 1986, 27
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The User Illusion
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Edelman, Tononi, A Universe of Consciousness
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http://www.scribd.com/doc/23479744/Williams-What-is-It-Like-to-Be-Unconscious-Draft-Version
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