I'm curious about your defense of Jaynes' theory! If small scale hunter gathering groups regularly hear voices in adaptive contexts (as Jaynes' theory suggests), have you found reports of "first contact" with these groups that support that claim?
My experience reading surveys of these types of reports has included relatively little hearing of voices, but commonplace "magical thinking" in interpretation of dreams, omens, and ordeals (I'm mostly relying on a book called Primitive Mentality by Lévy-Bruhl). But have you found any reports that suggest a Jaynesian type of culture?
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There are some scattered reports such as first-contact Australia in Darwin's Descent of Man, and modern conceptions of schizophrenia which is much more common in some cultures. I discuss those in a piece I wrote some time ago: https://www.vectorsofmind.com/p/consequences-of-conscience
I'm curious about your defense of Jaynes' theory! If small scale hunter gathering groups regularly hear voices in adaptive contexts (as Jaynes' theory suggests), have you found reports of "first contact" with these groups that support that claim?
My experience reading surveys of these types of reports has included relatively little hearing of voices, but commonplace "magical thinking" in interpretation of dreams, omens, and ordeals (I'm mostly relying on a book called Primitive Mentality by Lévy-Bruhl). But have you found any reports that suggest a Jaynesian type of culture?
This must be your first time on the blog, welcome!
There are some scattered reports such as first-contact Australia in Darwin's Descent of Man, and modern conceptions of schizophrenia which is much more common in some cultures. I discuss those in a piece I wrote some time ago: https://www.vectorsofmind.com/p/consequences-of-conscience
But I think that Jaynes gets the timeline wrong and underestimates the importance of genes. I go into depth how I think his theory could work here: https://www.vectorsofmind.com/p/eve-theory-of-consciousness-v3