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there’s a crackpot theory i read about wherein human consciousness is a learned phenomenon that developed extremely recently (in the last few thousand years) and before that humans thought their inner monologues were the gods instructing them to do things and they would just do them

there’s a crackpot theory i read about wherein human consciousness is a learned phenomenon that developed extremely recently (in the last few thousand years) and before that humans thought their inner monologues were the gods instructing them to do things and they would just do them 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origin_of_Consciousness_in_the_Breakdown_of_the_Bicameral_Mind

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curious to hear why you would call this crackpot? Susan Blackmore and Dan Dennett support it and I wouldn't call neither crackpot 😜