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pshrynk · 06-11-2009, 01:42 PM

Modern schizophrenic patients quite often interpret their voices as being that of God or Satan. A very common phenomenon. Without medicaitons, it is not possible to convince them otherwise, either.

Jaynes' correltations of modern schizophrenia and his proposed 3000BCE state are that the 3000BCE state was common and the modern version is not. Current physiologic research is actually showing that the modern schizophrenic state is one where there is minimal filtering of flow of messages from one hemisphere to another, which is a similar state to that which Jaynes postulated.

It could be that the state of schizophrenia is, in fact a throwback to a time before a genetic drift took hold and those without the God-mind became the normal population.

06-11-2009, 01:42 PM	#16
pshrynk Beepbeep n beebeep, yeah! Posts: 11,726 Karma: 8255450 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: La Crosse, Wisconsin, aka America's IceBox Device: iThingie, KmkII, I miss Zelda!	Modern schizophrenic patients quite often interpret their voices as being that of God or Satan. A very common phenomenon. Without medicaitons, it is not possible to convince them otherwise, either. Jaynes' correltations of modern schizophrenia and his proposed 3000BCE state are that the 3000BCE state was common and the modern version is not. Current physiologic research is actually showing that the modern schizophrenic state is one where there is minimal filtering of flow of messages from one hemisphere to another, which is a similar state to that which Jaynes postulated. It could be that the state of schizophrenia is, in fact a throwback to a time before a genetic drift took hold and those without the God-mind became the normal population.