When1: 1976
Who: Julian Jaynes [Jaynes, Julian]
What: psychologist
Where: USA
works\ Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind [1976]
Detail: He lived 1920 to 1997. Consciousness arose when brain hemispheres acquired different specialized functions and unified them. Even at Homer's time, mind was not aware of itself. People seem not to have will or mind. They acted based on thoughts or impulses seemingly from separate places, which they attributed to gods. Left and right hemispheres were separate. As left hemisphere specialized for language, it allowed introspection, control, and integration.
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