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Jaynes’ observations and conclusions are apples and oranges. If you don’t intend to buy into his conclusions, it is a good reading. With a caveat that he tends to interpret some data with a strong bias to support his thesis.

His example of archaic Greek as an indication of the bicameral mind concept was really a stretch. He took the grammar conventions as indication of the type of awareness. It would be like stating that Germans are not quite right because they are incapable to recognize vocative “plural you” and use vocative “they” where it is illogical, instead.