David Duchovny Explains Julian Jaynes’s Bicameral Mind Theory to Bill Maher

[@JulianJaynesSociety]

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[@guillermosahuquillo4499]

The Origin Of Consciousness in the Breadown of the Bicameral Mind is the most important book you will ever read in your life.

[@JulianJaynesSociety]

Thank you for your comment Guillermo, we agree!

[@BobanOrlovic]

You need to read more books

[@REDPUMPERNICKEL]

@@BobanOrlovic Insofar as understanding how it is that we are conscious that book provides the most likely theory among the handful most encounter. (Though having a basic knowledge of how neurons, sense organs and muscles work helps with understanding how the theory's concepts may be physically accomplished).

[@mr-splits-world]

I agree !

[@katsuquiet97]

facts ive read the hard copy years ago and just downloaded the ebook about a few months ago... man. he could of explained it a bit more tho

[@himeccms893]

David Duchovny, a fan of the book?! Looking at him in a whole new light there...

[@flolou8496]

That was good, here is another insight I was thinking about, people generally start off in life in a maze, but if they mature enough emotionally or spitually, they earn there right to feel as if they are on more of a ''path'' and less of a maze.

[@REDPUMPERNICKEL]

It's not a right, it happens by chance.

[@sam04019491]

“It doesn’t look like anything to me.”

[@pauls3075]

No. The comment you copied from someone else doesn't work in this context. It works for WW but not here.

[@DeathrowJS]

The silence after he explained..got some people thinking.

[@johnxtopher4598]

Duchovny was writing his dissertation on GRAVITY's RAINBOW when he got the gig for X FILES.

[@Malandirix]

YES!

[@nayrtnartsipacify]

im convinced truth for bill mahr is a matter of how smugly you can state your prejudices.

[@Wolfsbane909]

Yeah it's like me painting something that can be viewed right side up AND upside down 🙂🙃

[@REDPUMPERNICKEL]

As words and sentences transition from out of my unconscious and become silent linguistic thoughts of which I am conscious, I have a sure and certain belief that they are my thoughts in part because I am certain that I own my unconscious. In a bicameral brain the right, analytic hemisphere, synthesized solutions to the problems its analysis revealed then encoded those solutions into linguistic commands so that they could squeeze through the narrow central commisure to the left side of the brain for execution. In the left side, these linguistically encoded command signals were, unlike in me, routed through that part of the brain responsible for processing input from the ears. Thus the experience of the left mind was exactly the same as if the commands were coming from the clouds or from burning bushes.

[@JulianJaynesSociety]

Well said!

[@REDPUMPERNICKEL]

@@JulianJaynesSociety I had a thought... The other important aspect of synapses is... synapses enable the discharge-timing-patterns of upstream neurons to modulate the discharge-timing-patterns of downstream neurons. (And of course loops can form biologically to accomplish a variety of purposes, the timing of events for instance). Since neural-discharge-timing-patterns are the means by which brains encode representations, we can clearly see that synapses are the means by which representations intermodulate in the process we call thinking. Since one of the representations maintained by brains is what we refer to as 'the self', we can clearly see that the modulation of the self by representations is the physical side of what we mean by the word 'conscious'. (physical side: the substrate on which thoughts supervene) After all, it is my self who is conscious (which is the only thing my self knows with absolute certainty (à la Descartes)). This is closely analogous to the relationship between the physical existence of this very sentence and its brain context dependent meaning of which your self will have become conscious by the time you reach this period.↙ 🖖

[@starwarsfamilyguy0]

the split mind experiment with writing

[@Wolfsbane909]

Nope it's not a split mind.

[@manyplanets]

Duchovny never seems fully quite conscious

[@REDPUMPERNICKEL]

There are no degrees in being conscious. One either is or is not. Of course, the amount of what one is conscious definitely varies.

[@loui4898]

Why are people wooing and cheering after everything said? Is all US TV like this?

[@dpg227]

It's a comedy show with a live audience.

[@DevinTheDude93]

We are all God who divided himself and are further divided between the left and the right. It is through uniting the left and the right and the re uniting of self that we reunite to God.

[@REDPUMPERNICKEL]

As words and sentences transition from out of my unconscious and become silent linguistic thoughts of which I am conscious, I have a sure and certain belief that they are *my* thoughts in part because I am certain that I own my unconscious. In a bicameral brain the right, analytic hemisphere, synthesized solutions to the problems its analysis revealed then encoded those solutions into linguistic commands so that they could squeeze through the narrow central commisure to the left side of the brain. In the left side, these linguistically encoded command signals were, unlike in me, routed through that part of the brain responsible for processing input from the ears. Thus the experience of the left mind was exactly the same as if the commands were coming from the clouds or from burning bushes.

[@matthewmaguire3554]

One side of a piece of meat, talking to the other side of the piece of meat… And people don’t believe in miracles?

[@REDPUMPERNICKEL]

But people do believe in miracles and the 'meat' is more complex than any other thing in the universe, to the best of our knowledge.

[@christopherhamilton3621]

Lol! Which half?

[@flolou8496]

The side that holds our ''memory's'' according to the series WestWorld because the the character Bernard in episode 9 or 10 of series 1 states, that memory is the beginning of consciousness,(and I guess by extension, ''humanity'' for you can't learn, what you can't remember, ) he state's this to robot's who are on a journey of self consciousness, which I think are meant to be metaphor's for much of ''sleeping humanity''

[@REDPUMPERNICKEL]

It's the 'right' half in the right handed, everything mirror imaged for the 'left' handed. (I find 'handedness' to be quite odd and strongly wish I had been born perfectly balanced (thus I could borrow a lefty's golf clubs to good effect)).

[@dpg227]

Seems to suggest that God is in our minds and possibly a figment of the human mind. Talking to ourselves and thinking it's God.

[@REDPUMPERNICKEL]

For some reason this metaphor came to mind... The tank commander, upon seeing the tiger emerge from the distant woods, tells his driver, 'turn right twenty degrees' and tells his loader, 'load armor piercing' and tells his gunner, 'aim for the tiger. Fire when ready'.

[@VeriStrawberi]

Wow. That’s such an incredibly shallow and deeply uneducated view on God from so many layers. Just wow.