46. Artificial Superintelligence and the Return to Bicameral Mentality

"If you are familiar with Jaynesian theory, you understand that conscious interiority is not a biological given. It is a recently learned cultural technology -- one that succeeded the hallucinated voices of the bicameral mind. We moved from a world orchestrated by the monumental architecture of ancient ziggurats -- where hallucinated gods directed every action -- to a civilization on the verge of handing it's executive function to a modern, global network of of artificial superintelligence. ..."Learn more by reading "Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind," currently on sale for a limited time:https://www.amazon.com/dp/1737305534/https://www.julianjaynes.org/book/conversations-on-consciousness-and-the-bicameral-mind/Or by becoming a member of the Julian Jaynes Society: https://www.julianjaynes.org/join/Read the transcript: https://www.julianjaynes.org/Produced by Marcel Kuijsten using generative AI tools and reviewed by human editors for accuracy and clarity.