Thrill to the Stunning Bicameral Mind Hypothesis

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 4 August 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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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 today we join the club.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
0:05.7	That's why we launched The Big Take.
0:08.3	It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit
0:14.0	to give you some space to think.
0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
0:17.7	Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.
0:23.6	Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
0:31.5	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.
0:41.3	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:42.7	I'm Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too and this is Stuff You Should Know,
0:47.7	the ongoing amazing mind-blowing edition.
0:53.3	You've been into this stuff lately.
0:54.6	What's going on with you?
0:55.6	I don't know.
0:56.6	I don't know man, but yes, I'm definitely into it lately.
1:00.0	It's weird.
1:01.8	Approaching 50?
1:03.8	Existential crisis?
1:04.9	I don't know about crisis.
1:07.6	Maybe more like pondering.
1:09.6	Existential pondering.
1:10.6	I don't think it's a crisis yet.
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