Selects: Thrill to the Stunning Bicameral Mind Hypothesis
In this mind-bending episode of Stuff You Should Know, hosts Josh and Chuck dive into Julian Jaynes’s controversial 1976 theory of the bicameral mind, which posits that human consciousness as we know it—complete with introspection, metaphor, and self-awareness—only emerged around 3,000
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