while sick re-reading:
now that i am older and more well read, the book has much more resonance on many more levels than it did when i first grappled with mr. moore’s opus. prime example, while dr. gull is taking netley around london, he talks about the hemispheres of the brain having only been of lately connected more securely by a cable of neurons. that when we were a younger species and heard the voice of the gods, it was one side of the brain communicating with the other. outlined elegantly in this book:
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wow… I feel like I was having a conversation about this just the other day… though, that conversation may have been with myself…
anyway, gonna have to add this to ye olde reading list.
or it could have been with the gods that live in your brain….
jaynes book is pretty seminal. a little dense at the beginning but once he delves into the history of human literature and how the voice of it changes through the centuries, the book really picks up speed and makes a very compelling argument.
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