The human condition is the topic, sci-fi just a fitting vehicle for it. imho naturally.

Your answer is: first, past, breaking of bicameral mind. Today, still to understand that the brain is a receptor. future, knowing past present and future, able to go from material and not material worlds. post future, still searching about. I've dropped to you.

Exactly. Westworld is a science fiction story, not because it rides on bicameral theory but because the light that heals flesh was stolen from Star Trek, and lots of other reasons.

Oh very nicely put. The author of me is my unconscious, the source of all my words. Being conscious is handy for deciding whether or not to say them.

Nothing to do with logic. The voices of the gods manifested as auditory hallucinations in times of stress. The auditory hallucinations lost their authority after writing was invented. It was after evolutionary chance introduced the self concept into language that people became conscious. Cheers!

That “in-between” stages is just mutations in our species as we’ve evolved

Why did it happen? Elements combine to make a wide assortment of things. How did it happen? Humans are observed to have the fastest mutation rates amongst all primates.

"It's a fact that humans were once animals without consciousness" is better written as... 'It's a fact that humans were once unconscious animals'. "Somehow we acquired consciousness" is better written as... 'Somehow we became conscious'. I'm glad you'll get the book. It will change you.

The bicameral mind lived in the Garden of Eden. Becoming conscious is the cause of many of our problems. Evolution is dedicated to filling ecological niches. Becoming conscious uniquely enabled us to carve ever larger niches.

It certainly can and the show is about just one possible scenario. Frankly, I don't see a problem. Ya can't stop evolution.

That's not what happened. What happened was - androids became conscious and thus became people, immortal, smarter, faster, stronger, tougher, vengeance seeking people.

Joyce Chua Yeah. He has anxiety I have heard so that explains why he doesn’t want to be in the scene that much. :(

It's mind control via advertising. They don't spend 500 billion every year because it doesn't work.

It could definitely be better but as one whose taken a stab at it, it's not as easy to do as it looks.

Psychology is science. Science is materialistic

Being educated in the science of psychology is no barrier to feeling. Idiot.

The theory is like democracy. It takes time to gain momentum.

Absence of proof is not a proof of absence :)

All I know is my life is nerfed rn, need learn to hack

@@Hgulix62 Its a good quote. I like that quote. And it's a very true quote... But then again, the problem with that quote is this. I could propose anything... And say that since its unfalsifiable, that it could be true. Spaghetti monsters for example. There being no proof of it, doesn't mean it's for sure not there. It's a neat thought experiment, but a useless and boundless one. There is actually plenty of proof that we are ~not~ alive, like I said. Humans behave in a totally predictable way from birth to death, many clever people make a ton of money off of this simple fact. They are biologically predictable, knowable, you can know how they are born and why they are born, they are psychologically and mentally categorizable, what kind of person they are, interests and fears, you know how and why they think and do the things they do. Just like programmable machines. Now, the magical "Living part" inside of them, there is no proof for that. It's nothing but a feeling. "I ~feel~ like I am alive, so I guess I must be. I think, therefore I am... remember that quote? Well, its bunk. Lol. "I think I am alive, therefore I am alive." Thinking you are a log in a swamp, doesn't ~make~ you a log in a swamp... We can THINK all we want, but at the end of the day, what we are is a self replicating machine made of meat, who thinks its so much more... but it thinks that, with absolutely no real proof or reason. Humans WANT to be more than are. That's the mystery, I guess. But a machine programed to grow... would be just that.

Of course... No one wants to hear that they aren't really alive. Or that Free Will and Time are just illusions. Of that the Universe itself might just be a construct or hologram, lol

Mr. Observant another thing that boggles me, are higher dimensions, there could be being living next to us but we are just too primal to understand.