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Originally Posted by ahi
I think what makes Jaynes' theory so strange that he (I felt) makes a fairly convincing argument that the Superego correlate was not always a subconscious process but a (vaguely) separate entity-of-sorts responsible for many aspects of early history, from muses to Gods, from magnificent civilizations to civilization-breakdowns, from higher level thinking to reading and writing... and much more.
By comparison the more traditional notion of the superego seems like a relatively minor influence on the individual human mind.
- Ahi
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Hence the "Origin of Consciousness" part of the theory. As the brain halves started to coalesce, the Super Ego became less of a conscious thing and more of a "shared meme".