Bicameralism [AKA "Two Chambers"][related: Julian Jaynes]
Refers to a hypothesis coined by psychological researcher Julian Jaynes
following his time in prison as a conscientious objector to the Second World
War postulating that the human mind was once discretely divided into two
separate "chambers" of activity
1
. Jaynes posits that only experiential links
between these two spheres of activity were auditory hallucinations, resulting
in a normalized experience of diety-attributed vocal commands (AKA "the voice
of God"). According to Jaynes, bicameralism evolved into our current
integrated unicameral cognitive configuration towards the end of the
Mediterranean Bronze Age due to the presence of extreme environmental
stressors. In retroflection, it is thought that non-genetic
schizophrenia
can be seen as a
de-evolution into a bicameral state. Jayne used his theory to validate the
Tower of Babel
parable as a literal
occurrence resulting from mass confusion/hysteria over the sudden
societal-wide loss of verbal non-auditory commands. Bicameralism is but one
example of ways in which seemingly miraculous factual historical occurrences
have been systematically and erroneously discounted (i.e. attributed to
"legend", "faith-based naivety", "magic", etc.) by Newtonian pseudo-science, a
concept supported in great depth by the work of
Velikovsky.
1 Resulting in, according to some pathopsychologists, two discretely separate and binarily opposed alters.