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Originally Posted by wayrad
I haven't read the book, but it seems difficult to imagine a world in which schizophrenia would be conducive to survival. I mean, I've never heard anyone who has it say anything about the voices telling them anything particularly useful, and it tends to preclude other activities. And even in a nontechnological world, you have to get the crops planted on time...
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Jaynes theorizes that the part of the side of the brain responsible for the voices was the only part, way back when, capable of adjusting habitual behavior to fit novel situations. Along with being also the seat of reading and writing, among other things.
It is incorrect to think of the bicameral state as being a healthy person's mind subjugated by schizophrenia-induced voices. Think of a bicameral man being more like a person devoid of free will acting only ever on either habit or command... the command of the God-side of their brain most often. The God-side basically being the higher level function... the only form of "will" or "motivation" the dual-person possessed.
- Ahi