From: Stephen D. Williams (sdw@lig.net)
Date: Thu Jan 04 2001 - 20:08:39 PST
(Someone mentioned the bicameral mind recently and I decided I needed an
update.)
The Julian Jaynes Society's page is here:
http://julianjaynessociety.tripod.com/
But I find the wackiest exposition to be the holly-rollers-commercial style of
Neo Tech. I ran across an early version of Neo Tech many years ago, tried to
find it for a friend, and it just popped up. Hence I'm including the page
here for posterity.
http://www.neo-tech.com/discovery/nt3.html
I don't buy into either version completely, but they do make some interesting
points. If you take consciousness to mean something more finely defined such
as 'fully self-aware and independant consciousness' it makes a bit more
sense. In any case, the point that most people more or less do what is
expected of them by various authorities rings very true.
I also found some interesting references to AI projects using these ideas to
build consciousness infrastructure. Does anyone have pointers to interesting
live projects? (AI is my long term interest; building my fortune for a
research lab now... ;-) I'm waiting for a good AI bubble to come along.)
sdw
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CONTROLLING MYSTICS THROUGH THEIR
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The bicameral mind is a human mind functioning in a particular, unconscious mode or manner...in the manner intended by nature. While the bicameral mind[ 1 ] exists in all people, it can be controlled or dominated by a special mode of consciousness developed not through mother nature but volitionally by each individual being. That mind control or domination can be exercised by an individual over himself and others. Or an individual can allow that mode of consciousness in others to control or dominate his or her bicameral mind.
The bicameral mind (two-chamber mind) is one that functions as an unconscious, two-step process. Automatic reactions and thoughts originate in the right hemisphere of the brain and are transmitted to the left hemisphere as instructions to be acted upon. The bicameral functioning is nature's automatic, learned mode of response without regard to conscious thinking. By contrast, man-made consciousness functions through a deliberate, volitional thought process that is independent of nature's bicameral thought process.
Until approximately 3000 years ago, man's brain functioned entirely in nature's automatic bicameral mode. But the automatic bicameral mind became inadequate to handle the mounting problems as societies became more complex. To survive, man was forced to invent a new way of thinking -- a new mode called consciousness that could solve infinitely more complex problems. That consciousness mode involved his newly discovered powers of introspection. His thinking process was further enhanced by new thoughts and insights created by comparisons done through metaphors and analogs.
Consciousness allows a person to make his or her own decisions rather than relying on nature's bicameral process that automatically follows learned customs, traditional rules, and external "authorities". Metaphors and analogs increase a person's range and power of thinking infinitely beyond nature's range. Yet, despite the great advantages in using the man-invented mode of thinking, most people today depend to various degrees on their automatic bicameral mentality and external "authorities" to make their decisions for them.
That bicameral mentality lures people into searching for "sure-thing" guidance from "higher authorities", rather than using their own consciousness for making decisions and determining their actions. Thus, in their search for prepackaged truth and automatic guidance, people seek "higher authorities": religion, politics, true-believer movements, leaders, gurus, cults, astrology, fads, drugs, feelings, and even forms of poetry, music, medicine, nutrition, and psychology. The bicameral mind seeks outside sources that will tell it how to think and act. ...Anyone can exploit the automatic bicameral mind in others by setting up "authorities" for influencing or controlling that bicameral mentality seeking external guidance.
Bicameral mentalities avoid human self-responsibility by seeking and obeying external decision makers. In poker, for example, bicameral tendencies leave players open to being controlled by any conscious individual acting as an external decision maker and authority. In addition, the single, biggest money-losing, mystical concept -- the belief in luck -- is rooted in the bicameral mentality. In fact, most gamblers rely on the phantom "authority" of luck to escape the only valid authority: their own rational consciousness.
Understanding bicameral tendencies in others can provide unbeatable advantages by knowing the external forces that control most people. That understanding enables one not only to predict the actions of others but to control their actions. A poker player, for example, can create unbeatable advantages by projecting any number of phantom "authorities" to which his opponents will obey, act, or react.
The principle of advantageously controlling the bicameral minds of others applies not only to poker but to all competitive situations involving two or more people. Poker, however, provides crisp, clear examples of using the bicameral mind to control people. More important, poker provides countless metaphors to which everyone can relate. Also, most poker players are gamblers. And gambling is a bicameral activity in which people abandon their own rational consciousness to phantom "authorities" such as feelings, luck, priests, and politicians.
Poker games exist because of the bicameral urge in most
players to gamble. That urge resides in the desire to escape the
responsibility for consistently making rational decisions needed to prosper by
producing values for others. Gamblers try to escape (at least temporarily)
that self-responsibility through an activity such as poker. And through their
bicameral urges, gamblers can be controlled by others.
Even the best professional player can succumb to bicameral urges: By playing
poker for a living, for example, he avoids involvement in a productive career
that demands much more independent, rational thinking than poker. But, the
good player can also use poker as a discipline to strengthen both his conscious
integrating processes and his abilities to control others.
Through understanding those bicameral urges in others, a good
player can generate unbeatable advantages. He creates those advantages by
conjuring up external "authorities" for guiding his opponents into actions that
benefit him. For example, an opponent is told to "open up" (bet more loosely)
because good player X always bets aggressively in the same situation -- and
good player X always ends up winning heavily. In that way, player X is set up
as an external "authority" for misleading the opponent into making wrong moves
based on facts bicamerally accepted out of context. Even greater advantages
are gained by realizing that an opponent is bicamerally using rules,
information, and odds gleaned from "authorities" such as authors of
noncognitive poker books. (Of the 170 poker books published in the past
century, only Wallace's book, The Advanced Concepts of Poker, is fully
cognitive.)
Bicameral tendencies can also be exploited through subtle maneuvers. For
example, mumbling very quietly (almost subaudibly) words that will influence or
trigger reactions in opponents who subconsciously hear those "voices". To
those opponents, the subconscious voice automatically acts as an external
"authority" to be followed. As another example, a player who is hesitant about
attending a game after several losing sessions is fed whatever out-of-context
facts or spurious "truth" he wants to hear such as, "The worst thing a player
can do is quit just as his losing streak is about to end. That's when the
odds are the greatest for shifting from a bad-luck streak to a good-luck
streak. Managing luck streaks is the whole idea of winning. All winners know
that." With such specious "truths" and non sequiturs, the good player
establishes himself as an external "authority" in controlling his opponents.
But most important, as demonstrated in the original Neo-Tech Prediscovery,
poker generates accurate metaphors needed to identify and then exploit the
bicameral tendencies existing in most people. Indeed, those tendencies are
readily exploitable beyond the card tables with the same kind of phantom or
external "authorities" set up either overtly or subliminally. Such external
"authorities" can be established, for example, in religion, politics,
psychology, medicine, business, and personal relationships as shown in Neo-Tech
II. ...Understanding the bicameral mind is invaluable not only for controlling
others but for avoiding being controlled by others.
The discovery of controlling people through their bicameral minds evolved from
a more basic discovery made by Dr. Julian Jaynes of Princeton University. His
discovery was first identified and then integrated in the following article
written for the Neo-Tech Research and Writing Institute.
by
A person could make an excellent bet by wagering a hundred ounces of gold that
Julian Jaynes's book, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the
Bicameral Mind will someday rank among the ten most
important books ever written. ...Jaynes's book signals the end
of a 10,000-year reign of authoritarian institutions. His book also marks the
beginning of a new era of individual consciousness during which people will
increasingly act on the authority of their own brains. That movement toward
self-responsibility will increasingly weaken the influences of external or
mystical "authorities" such as government and religion.
The discovery of the bicameral mind solves the missing-link problem that has
defied all previous theories of human evolution. But more important, that
discovery is generating a new field of knowledge called Neothink with which all
human life can evolve into abiding prosperity and happiness through powerfully
competitive Neo-Tech advantages.
Dr. Jaynes discovered that until 3000 years ago essentially all human beings
were void of consciousness.[ 2 ] Man along with all other primates
functioned by mimicked or learned reactions. But, because of his much larger,
more complex brain, man was able to develop a coherent language beginning about
8000 B.C. He was then guided by audio hallucinations. Those hallucinations
evolved in the right hemisphere of the brain and were "heard" as communications
or instructions in the left hemisphere of the brain (the bicameral or
two-chamber mind). ...In effect, human beings were super-intelligent but
automatically reacting animals who could communicate by talking. That
communication enabled human beings to cooperate closely to build societies,
even thriving civilizations.
Still, like all other animals, man functioned almost entirely by an automatic
guidance system that was void of consciousness -- until about 1000 B.C. when he
was forced to invent consciousness to survive in the collapsing bicameral
civilizations. ...Today, man's survival still depends on his choice of
beneficially following his own consciousness or destructively following the
voices of external "authorities".
The major components of Jaynes's discovery are:
What evidence does Jaynes present to support his discoveries? After defining
consciousness, he systematically presents his evidence to prove that man was
not conscious until 3000 years ago when the bicameral civilizations collapsed
and individuals began inventing consciousness in order to survive. Jaynes's
proof begins with the definition of consciousness:
Consciousness requires metaphors (i.e., referring to one thing in order to
better understand or describe another thing -- such as the head of an army, the
head of a household, the head of a nail). Consciousness also requires analog
models, (i.e., thinking of a map of California, for example, in order to
visualize the entire, physical state of California). Thinking in metaphors and
analog models creates the mind space and mental flexibility needed to bypass
the automatic, bicameral processes.[ 3 ]
The bicameral thinking process functions only in concrete terms and
narrow, here-and-now specifics. But the conscious thinking process
generates an infinite array of subjective perceptions that permit ever broader
understandings and better decisions.
Metaphors of "me" and analog models of "I" allow consciousness to function
through introspection and self-visualization. In turn, consciousness expands
by creating more and more metaphors and analog models. That expanding
consciousness allows a person to "see" and understand the relationship between
himself and the world with increasing accuracy and clarity.
Consciousness is a conceptual, metaphor-generated analog world that parallels
the actual world. Man, therefore, could not invent consciousness until he
developed a language sophisticated enough to produce metaphors and analog
models.
The genus Homo began about two million years ago. Rudimentary oral languages
developed from 70,000 B.C. to about 8000 B.C. Written languages began about
3000 B.C. and gradually developed into syntactical structures capable of
generating metaphors and analog models. Only at that point could man invent
and experience consciousness.
Jaynes shows that man's early writings (hieroglyphics, hiertatic, and
cuneiform) reflect a mentality totally different from our own. They reflect a
nonmetaphoric, nonconscious mentality. Jaynes also shows that the
Iliad, which evolved as a sung poem about 1000 B.C., contains little if
any conscious thought. The characters in the Iliad (e.g., Achilles, Agamemnon,
Hector, Helen) act unconsciously in initiating all their major actions and
decisions through "voices", and all speak in hexameter rhythms (as often do
modern-day schizophrenics when hallucinating). Hexameter rhythms are
characteristic of the rhythmically automatic functionings of the
right-hemisphere brain. Moreover, the Iliad is entirely about
action...about the acts and consequences of Achilles. The Iliad never
mentions subjective thoughts or the contents of anyone's mind. The language is
nonconscious -- an objective reporting of facts that are concrete bound and
void of introspection and abstract thought.
With a conscious mind, man can introspect; he can debate with himself; he can
become his own god, voice, and decision maker. But before the invention of
consciousness, the mind functioned bicamerally: the right hemisphere (the
poetic, god-brain) hallucinated audio instructions to the left hemisphere (the
analytical, man-brain), especially in unusual or stressful situations.
Essentially, man's brain today is physically identical to the ancient bicameral
brain; but with his discovery or more precisely his invention of
consciousness, he can now choose to focus on integrating the functions of the
left and right hemispheres.
Beginning about 9000 B.C. -- as oral languages developed -- routine or
habitual tasks became increasingly standardized. The hallucinating voices for
performing those basic tasks, therefore, became increasingly similar among
groups of people. The collectivization of "voices" allowed more and more
people to cooperate and function together through their bicameral minds. The
leaders spoke to the "gods" and used the "voices" to lead the masses in
cooperative unison. That cooperation allowed nomadic hunting tribes to
gradually organize into stationary, food-producing societies. The continuing
development of oral language and the increasing collectivization of bicameral
minds allowed towns and eventually cities to form and flourish.
The bicameral mind, however, became increasingly inadequate for guiding human
actions as societies continued to grow in size and complexity. By about 1000
B.C., the bicameral mind had become so inadequate that man's social structures
began collapsing. Under threat of extinction, man invented a new way to use
his brain that allowed him to solve the much more complex problems needed to
survive -- he invented a new organization of the mind called consciousness.
Jaynes eliminated the missing link in the evolution of man by discovering that
consciousness never existed in the evolutionary processes -- consciousness was
invented by man.
But as those unconscious societies became more complex and increasingly
intermingled through trade and wars, the "voices" became mixed and
contradictory. With the "voices" becoming muddled, their effectiveness in
guiding people diminished. Rituals and importunings became ever more intense
and elaborate in attempts to evoke clearer "voices" and better guidance. The
development of writing and the permanent recording of instructions and laws
during the second millennium B.C. further weakened the authority and
effectiveness of hallucinated voices. As the "voices" lost their
effectiveness, they began falling silent. And without authoritarian "voices"
to guide and control its people, those societies suddenly began collapsing with
no external cause.
As the bicameral mind broke down and societies collapsed, individuals one by
one began inventing consciousness to make decisions needed to survive in the
mounting anarchy and chaos. On making conscious and volitional decisions, man
for the first time became responsible for his actions. Also, for short-range
advantages and easy power, conscious man began discovering and using deceit and
treachery -- behaviors not possible from nonconscious, bicameral minds.
...Before inventing consciousness, man was as guiltless and amoral as any other
animal since he had no volitional choice in following his automatic guidance
system of hallucinated voices.
As the "voices" fell silent, man began contriving religions and prayers in his
attempts to communicate with the departed gods. Jaynes shows how man developed
the concept of worship, heaven, angels, demons, exorcism, sacrifice,
divination, omens, sortilege, augury in his attempts to evoke guidance from the
gods -- from external "authorities".
All such quests for external "authority" hark back to the breakdown of the
hallucinating bicameral mind -- to the silencing and celestialization of the
once "vocal" and earthly gods.
Much direct evidence for the breakdown of the bicameral mind and the
development of consciousness comes from writings scribed between 1300 B.C. and
300 B.C. Those writings gradually shift from nonconscious, objective reports
to conscious, subjective expressions that reflect introspection. The jump from
the nonconscious writing of the Iliad to the conscious writing of the
Odyssey (composed perhaps a century later) is dramatically obvious. In
the Odyssey, unlike the Iliad, characters possess conscious
self-awareness, introspection powers, and can sense right, wrong, and guilt.
...That radical difference between the Iliad and the Odyssey is,
incidentally, further evidence that more than one poet composed the Homeric
epics.
The transition from the nonconscious Iliad to the conscious Odyssey
marks man's break with his 8000-year-old hallucinatory guidance system. By
the sixth century B.C., written languages began reflecting conscious ideas of
morality and justice similar to those reflected today.
The Old Testament of the Bible also illustrates the transition from the
nonconscious writing of its earlier books (such as Amos, circa 750 B.C.) to the
fully conscious writing of its later books (such as Ecclesiastes, circa 350
B.C.). Amid that transition, the book of Samuel records the first known
suicide -- an act that requires consciousness. And the book of Deuteronomy
illustrates the conflict between the bicameral mind and the conscious mind.
Likewise, the transition to consciousness is observed in other parts of the
world: Chinese literature moved from bicameral nonconsciousness to subjective
consciousness about 500 B.C. with the writings of Confucius. And in India,
literature shifted to subjective consciousness around 400 B.C. with the
Upanishadic writings.
American Indians, however, never developed the sophisticated, metaphorical
languages needed to develop full consciousness. As a result, their mentalities
were probably bicameral when they first encountered the European explorers.
For example, with little or no conscious resistance, the Incas allowed the
Spanish "white gods" to dominate, plunder, and slaughter them.
Despite religion, conscious minds caused the gradual shifts from governments
of gods to governments of men and from divine laws to secular laws. Still, the
vestiges of the bicameral mind combined with man's longing for guidance
produced churches, prophets, oracles, sibyls, diviners, cults, mediums,
astrologers, saints, idols, demons, tarot cards, seances, Ouija boards,
glossolalia, fuhrers, ayatollahs, popes, peyote, Jonestown, born-agains.
Jaynes shows how such external "authorities" exist only through the remnants
of the bicameral mind. Moreover, he reveals a four-step paradigm that can
reshuffle susceptible minds back into hallucinating, bicameral mentalities.
The ancient Greeks used a similar paradigm to reorganize or reprogram the minds
of uneducated peasant girls into totally bicameral mentalities so they could
become oracles and give advice through hallucinated voices -- voices that would
rule the world (e.g., the oracle at Delphi). ...Today, people who deteriorate
into schizophrenic psychoses follow similar paradigms.
A common thread united most oracles, sibyls, prophets, and demon-possessed
people: Almost all were illiterate, all believed in spirits, and all could
readily retrieve the bicameral mind. Today, however, retrieval of the
bicameral mind is schizophrenic insanity. Also, today, as throughout history,
a symptomatic cure for "demon-possessed" people involves exorcising rituals
that let a more powerful "authority" or god replace the "authority" of the
demon. The New Testament, for example, shows that Jesus and his disciples
became effective exorcists by substituting one "authority" (their god) for
another "authority" (another god or demon).
As the voices of the oracles became confused and nonsensical, their popularity
waned. In their places, idolatry revived and then flourished. But as
Christianity became a popular source of external "authority", Christian zealots
began physically destroying all competing idols. They then built their own
idols and symbols to reinforce the external "authority" of Christianity.
Among today's vestiges of the bicameral mentality is the born-again movement
that seeks external guidance. In that movement, people surrender their
self-choice and self-decision making in exchange for false promises of
protection and guidance. Such vestiges dramatize man's resistance to use his
own invention of consciousness to guide his life.
The chanting cadence of poetry and the rhythmic beat of music are also rooted
in the bicameral mentality. In ancient writings, the hallucinated voices of
the gods were always in poetic verse, usually in dactylic hexameter and
sometimes in rhyme or alliteration -- all characteristic of right-brain
functionings. The oracles and prophets also spoke in verse. And today
schizophrenics often speak in verse when they hallucinate.
Poetry and chants can have authoritarian or commanding beats and rhythms that
can effectively block consciousness. Poetry is the language of the gods -- it
is the language of the artistic, right-hemispheric brain. Plato recognized
poetry as a divine madness.
Most poetry and songs have an abruptly changing or a discontinuous pitch.
Normal speech, on the other hand, has a smoothly changing pitch. Jaynes
demonstrates that reciting poetry, singing, and playing music are right-brain
functions, while speaking is a left-brain function. That is why people with
speech impediments can often sing, chant, or recite poetry with flawless
clarity. Conversely, almost anyone trying to sing a conversation will find his
words quickly deteriorating into a mass of inarticulate cliches.
Likewise, listening to music and poetry is a right-brain function. And music,
poetry, or chants that project authority with loud or rhythmic beats can
suppress left-brain functions to temporarily relieve anxiety or a painfully
troubled consciousness.
Jaynes goes on to show phenomena such as hypnosis, acupuncture, and
déjà vu also function through vestiges of the bicameral mind.
And he demonstrates how hypnosis steadily narrows the sense of self, time,
space, and introspection as consciousness shrinks and the mind reverts to a
bicameral type organization. Analogously, bicameral and schizophrenic minds
have little or no sense of self, time, space or introspection. The hypnotized
mind is urged to obey the voice of the hypnotist; the bicameral mind is
compelled to obey the "voices" of "authority" or gods. By sensing oneself
functioning in the narrow-scope, unaware state of hypnosis, gives one an idea
of functioning in the narrow-scope, unaware state of bicameral man.
Jaynes also identifies how modern quests for external "authority" are linked
to the bicameral mind. Many such quests use science to seek authority in the
laws of nature. In fact, today, science is surpassing the waning institutional
religions as a major source of external "authority". And rising from the
vestiges of the bicameral mind are an array of scientisms (pseudoscientific
doctrines, faiths, and cults) that select various natural or scientific facts
to subvert into apocryphal, authoritarian doctrines. That subversion is
accomplished by using facts out of context to fit promulgated beliefs. Such
mystical scientisms include astrology, ESP, Scientology, Christian Science and
other "science" churches, I Ching, behaviorism, sensitivity training, mind
control, meditation, hypnotism, as well as specious nutritional, health, and
medical fads.
Today the major worldwide sources of external "authority" are the
philosophical doctrines of religion (along with the other forms of mysticism
and "metaphysics") combined with political doctrines such as Socialism,
Fascism, and Marxism. All such doctrines demand the surrender of the
individual's ego (sense of self or "I") to a collective, obedient faith toward
the "authority" of those doctrines. In return, those doctrines offer automatic
answers and lifetime guidance from which faithful followers can survive without
the responsibility or effort of using their own conscious minds. Thus, all
current political systems represent a regression into mysticism -- from
conscious man back to bicameral man.
Despite their constant harm to everyone, most modern-day external
"authorities" and master neocheaters thrive by using the following two-step
neocheating technique to repress consciousness and activate the bicameral mind
in their victims.
Still, the resistance to self-responsibility is formidable. The bicameral
mentality grips those seeking mysticism or other "authorities" for guidance.
Those who accept external "authority" allow government officials, religious
leaders, environmental and anti-abortion movements, faith, homilies, cliches,
one-liners, slogans, the familiar, habits, and feelings to automatically guide
their actions. The Neo-Tech Discovery demonstrates how throughout
history billions of people because of their bicameral tendencies unnecessarily
submit to the illusionary external "authorities" of parasitical Establishments,
governments, and religions. Such submission is always done at a net loss to
everyone's well being and happiness.
No valid external "authority" exists that one can automatically live by. To
live effectively, an individual must let only the authority of his own
consciousness guide his activities. All consistently competent people have
learned to act on reality -- not on their feelings or someone else's feelings
or doctrines. An individual must accept the responsibility to guide his or her
own life in order to live competently, successfully, happily.
People knowledgeable about Neo-Tech have the tools to control all others who act on
their bicameral tendencies. ...Equally important, people knowledgeable about Neo-Tech
have the tools to control their own lives and destinies, free from crippling mysticism
and harmful neocheating.
Without the bicameral mentality, all mysticism and external "authority" will wither and
vanish, for they have no validity except that which is granted to them by the
bicameral mentalities. With political and religious influences disappearing, the
mechanisms for "authorities" to harm individuals and wage wars will also disappear.
Thus, if civilization is prospering by the year 2000, Jaynes's discovery along with
the discoveries of Neo-Tech and Neothink will have contributed to that prosperity
by ending the symbiotic, mystical relationships of bicameral mentalities with
authoritarian societies (which now hold nuclear weapons). Such mystical relationships
would sooner or later cause the annihilation of any civilization.
If our civilization is flourishing by the year 2000, rational human consciousness
will have eliminated mysticism and external "authority" through fully integrated
honesty (Neo-Tech). And without external "authority", governments and their wars
will be impossible. Best of all, without external "authority" or mysticism,
no one will be forcibly controlled, impeded, or drained by others.
Without the chains of mysticism, non-aging biological immortality will become
commercially available to every productive person wanting to enjoy life and
happiness forever.
Value Producers vs. Value Destroyers
For 2000 years, professional mystics have prophesied that the world will
end during the 20th century. Now, today, late in the 20th century, their world
is indeed ending. Their world is ending through the emerging war with the
other world -- the world of fully integrated honesty, the world of Neo-Tech.
Their world, being an uncompetitive remnant of nature's bicameral past, is fatally
diseased with mysticism. Thus, in their final war with Neo-Tech, their
dying world will crumble to nothing.
Professional mystics and value-destroying neocheaters have encountered
their Antichrist in Neo-Tech. Their Armageddon has come; the ultimate battle
has begun. The battle is between good and evil, between honesty and dishonesty,
between value producers and value destroyers, between Neo-Tech and mysticism.
...Yes, good will triumph over evil. And, as everyone will soon discover,
they, the professional mystics and neocheaters, are and always have been the
arch evil disguised as the good. But, now, through the war of two worlds, their
world will end forever. ...With their world gone forever, war and value
destruction will vanish forever.
In the world of mysticism, cause and effect are irrationally reversed:
feelings beget actions instead of actions begetting feelings. For example,
in the world of mysticism, arbitrary and cynical feelings beget unhappy,
destructive livings. While, in the world of Neo-Tech, consistent and productive
livings beget happy, constructive feelings. The mystical world is sick and
out of control. The Neo-Tech world is healthy and in control. ...Thus,
Neo-Tech will always vanquish mysticism in any confrontation, battle, or war.
[ 1 ]
The bicameral mind was first identified by Dr. Julian Jaynes of
Princeton University in his book, The Origin of Consciousness in the
Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Houghton Mifflin Company.
[ 2 ]
An interesting note that underscores the recency of consciousness: A person living to 70 years today will have spanned over 2% of the time since human beings have been conscious.
[ 3 ]
Metaphors and analog models bring the right hemisphere brain functions to the left
hemisphere with a much broader, wide-scope view which enables ever more powerful conceptual
thinking.
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Exploiting Bicameral Tendencies in Opponents
CONSCIOUSNESS: THE END OF AUTHORITY
Frank R. Wallace
The idea of civilizations consisting entirely of nonconscious, yet highly
intelligent, automatic-reacting people and the idea of man bypassing nature to
invent his own consciousness initially seems incredible. But as Jaynes
documents his evidence in a reasoned and detached manner, the existence of two
minds in all human beings becomes increasingly evident: (1) the obsolete,
nonconscious (bicameral) mind that seeks guidance from external "authorities"
for important thoughts and decisions, especially under stressed or difficult
conditions; and (2) the newly invented conscious mind that bypasses external
"authorities" and provides thoughts and guidance generated from one's own mind.
...Understanding Jaynes's discoveries unlocks the 10,000 year-old secret of
controlling the actions of people through their mystical or bicameral minds.Defining and Understanding Consciousness
Julian Jaynes defines both what consciousness is and
what it is not. After speculating on its location, he demonstrates that
consciousness itself has no physical location, but rather is a particular
organization of the mind and a specific way of using the brain. Jaynes then
demonstrates that consciousness is only a small part of mental activity and is
not necessary for concept formation, learning, thinking, or even reasoning. He
illustrates how all those mental functions can be performed automatically,
intelligently, but unconsciously. Furthermore, consciousness does not
contribute to and often hinders the execution of learned skills such as
speaking, listening, writing, reading --as well as skills involving music, art,
and athletics. Thus, if major human actions and skills can function
automatically and without consciousness, those same actions and skills can be
controlled or driven by external influences, "authorities", or "voices"
emanating under conditions described later. ...But first an understanding of
consciousness is important:The Development of Consciousness
Dr. Jaynes shows through abundant archaeological,
historical, and biological evidence that the towns, cities, and societies from
9000 B.C. to 1000 B.C. were established and developed by nonconscious people.
Those societies formed and grew through common hallucinating voices attributed
to gods, rulers, and the dead -- to external "authorities". Various external
symbols that "spoke" (such as graves, idols, and statues) helped to reinforce
and expand the authority of those common "voices". Such "voices" continued to
expand their reach through increasingly visible and awe-inspiring symbols such
as tombs, temples, colossuses, and pyramids.The Bicameral Mind in Today's World
Dr. Jaynes identifies many vestiges of the bicameral
mentality that exist today. The most obvious vestige is religion and its
symbols. Ironically, early Christianity with its teachings of Jesus was an
attempt to shift religion from the outmoded bicameral and celestial mind of
Moses to the newly conscious and earthly mind of man. Christianity then
discovered a devastatingly effective tool for authoritarian control -- guilt.
Indeed, guilt not only worked on conscious minds, but required conscious minds
to be effective.
But, in reality, no valid external "authority" or higher power can exist or
ever has existed. Valid authority evolves only from one's own independent,
conscious mode of thinking. When that fact is fully realized, man will emerge
completely from his bicameral past and move into a future that accepts
individual consciousness as the only authority. ...Man will then fully evolve
into a prosperous, happy individual who has assumed full responsibility for his
own thinking and life.The Implications of Neo-Tech
To some, the implications of Neo-Tech (fully integrated
honesty) are frightening, even terrifying. To others, the implications are
electrifying and liberating. ...The implications of Neo-Tech are that each
individual is solely responsible for his or her own life -- responsible for
making the efforts required for learning how to honestly guide one's own life
toward growing prosperity and happiness. No automatic, effortless route to
knowledge or guidance exists.EPILOGUE: THE END OF MYSTICISM
Neo-Tech I-V provides the knowledge needed for identifying the bicameral
elements of any statement or action by anyone or any group (e.g., church,
government, media, politician, priest, businessman, doctor, friend, parent,
spouse, self). Armed with Neo-Tech, people can free themselves from the control
or influence of mysticism and external "authority". And hopefully, by the year
2000, the discoveries of Neo-Tech and Neothink will have eliminated all vestiges
of the bicameral mentality -- all vestiges of mysticism and external "authority".
WAR OF TWO WORLDS
The Final War
Who Will Win at Armageddon?
Why Neo-Tech Vanquishes
Mysticism and Neocheating