Selects: Thrill to the Stunning Bicameral Mind Hypothesis
Stuff You Should Know
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4.5 • 82.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Psychologist Julian Jaynes came up with a stunning hypothesis in 1976, that human consciousness only developed in the last 3000 years. And he seemed to have proof in ancient texts. Scholars have been picking it apart ever since and in this classic episode we join the club.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
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| 0:04.4 | No gloss, no filter. |
| 0:07.4 | Just stories. |
| 0:09.1 | Spoken without fear. |
| 0:10.9 | Person who is not generous can not be an artist. |
| 0:13.8 | The world will be at peace only when it is ruled by poets and philosophers. |
| 0:18.4 | Listen to my weekly podcast, the Pooja Abhawad show, |
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| 0:24.2 | or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:27.6 | Come for the honesty. |
| 0:29.2 | Stay for the fire. |
| 0:33.5 | Hey there, guys. |
| 0:34.7 | It's Josh, and for this week's Select, |
| 0:36.7 | I'm going with our August 2020 episode on the bicameral mind theory. It is mind blowing, mind expanding, mind flabbergasting. It's just a really good episode. It's just really me and Chuck sitting around having a really interesting conversation about some really interesting stuff. |
| 0:56.6 | So if you feel like expanding your mind right now, I would say this is a great episode to listen to. |
| 1:02.4 | Enjoy. |
| 1:08.2 | Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio. |
| 1:17.8 | Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too. |
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| 1:29.8 | You've been into this stuff lately. |
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