|
Also, modern schizophrenics were at one time or another non-schizophrenic non-bicameral human beings.
Imagine a person born with schizophrenia (whose auditory hallucinations would presumably begin at the same time they learned to talk in the first few years of life) who lived in a society populated entirely by schizophrenics. And where the established societal interpretation about the voices is "they should/must be obeyed".
Add to that the fact that they were obeyed in part because they did in fact give useful advice on a regular basis. (An important part of Jaynes theory is that only the God-part of the bicameral mind was capable of advanced/abstract problem-solving, things like Math, things like writing and reading.)
And I think a schizophrenic-like--but in some ways probably very different--mentality suddenly starts to seem rather reasonable/likely.
- Ahi
|