Status Updates From From Atlantis to the Sphinx

Jaynes is suggesting that what we call ‘subjectivity’—the ability to look inside yourself and say: ‘Now what do I think about this?’—did not exist before about 1250 BC. The minds of these early people were, he thinks, ‘bicameral’—divided into two compartments. And when a primitive man was worried about what to do next, he heard a voice speaking to him