## Books https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9016.Colin_Wilson Listen to https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/1977342698?source_code=ASSORAP0511160006&share_location=library_overflow He says we are roughly 49% human and 51% machine. When we get comfortable, or below a certain energy (the difference between 1% or so can tip us one way or the other) our machine side take over. Colin mentions Julian Jaynes book in this great video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WWeE1GnZjA ### The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind: by **[[Julian Jaynes]]** - >At the heart of this book is the revolutionary idea that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but is a learned process brought into being out of an earlier hallucinatory mentality by cataclysm and catastrophe only 3,000 years ago and still developing. The implications of this new scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and [[Culture]], our religion – and indeed, our future. In the words of one reviewer, it is “a humbling text, the kind that reminds most of us who make our livings through thinking, how much thinking there is left to do.” >The author's hypothesis can be summed up thusly: 1. Prior to the second millennium BC, humans were not conscious (by and large). 2. The right hemisphere of the brain was dominant and directed humans via auditory and visual hallucinations that became the "gods" (and God) that appear in ancient literature. 3. This condition Jaynes calls the Bicameral Mind (BM) (vs. the Conscious Mind (CM)). 4. The first chink in the BM came with the advent of language, when it became theoretically possible to construct an internal dialog and an analog "I." 5. The final nails in the BM's coffin were the invention of writing and the increasing complexity of urban civilization, which proved too much for the BM to cope with. 6. Consequently, the CM is a product of acculturation, not an emergent property of the brain. 7. The first stirrings of the CM came in the 2nd millennium BC; and by the 1st millennium, it had become the dominant hemisphere of the brain. 2. The BM remains with us but in modern society is found only with schizophrenics and under special conditions (such as hypnosis, deep meditation or religious frenzy). noun: **acculturation** 1. assimilation to a different [[Culture]], typically the dominant one. "the process of acculturation may impact both social and psychological well-being" - Funny the similarities between Cult, Culture, Occult. This all adds up to philosophers like [[Daniel Dennett]] and his theory that the consciousness is like an illusion created by the brain. Similar books to the theory: Before the Dawn Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors, Inside the Neolithic Mind Consciousness Cosmos and the Realm of the Gods, The Singing Neanderthals The Origins of Music Language Mind and Body and The 10 000 Year Explosion How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution. #Media/Books/Social