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Right now, there is a serious crisis in the scientific study of the mind. Neurobiologists, philosophers, and AI researchers are all trying to explain consciousness, but they are completely talking past one another. They aren’t even working from the same definition.
Over time, the word has been stretched so...
Thinking is exhausting. We often assume that the internal voice narrating our choices — the heavy burden of weighing options and anticipating consequences — is a permanent feature of human biology. But the historical record suggests this introspective consciousness is actually a recently acquired incredibly taxing adaptation.
If you are familiar with Jaynesian theory, you understand that conscious interiority is not a biological given. It is a recently learned cultural technology — one that succeeded the hallucinated voices of the bicameral mind. We moved from a world orchestrated by the monumental architecture of ancient ziggurats — where hallucinated gods dir...