(June 19, 2017 at 1:38 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(June 19, 2017 at 1:08 pm)Whateverist Wrote: Julian Jaynes* hypothesizes that consciousness itself began as a hallucination of the voice of a god. Actually it's more complicated than that. But if any of it makes sense then the voice of god has always been a hierarchal affair. The highest priest/king would still hear the voice of the last one emanating from a stone figure commanding him what to do and everyone below him would hear the voice of god when he spoke. That voice would continue to resonate with them even when he wasn't there by way of their own capacity to hallucinate. The capacity to have a voice of ones own would have been and some degree of will as an individual would have been a later development. So if he were right about this, the priest class wasn't a scheme of a conniving individual; it was instead part of a process which led to individual consciousness of self. But god only knows what he may have been huffing.
*The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Sounds overly complex. The bullshitter theory is quite enough.
Yeah, if you like simple answers go with that.
