“The vestiges of the bicameral mind do not exist in any empty psychological space.”

— Julian Jaynes, book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Book III, Chapter 2, p. 355
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)

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