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 deity-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.
