Category Archives: Philosophy & Psychology

Before and After Human Consciousness, or The Voice of God vs. Auditory Hallucinations

Posted on April 30, 2023 by Ron Pavellas

Psychologist Julian Jaynes (1920 – 1997) asserted that humans were not fully conscious until around 4,000 or 3,000 years ago, the time when the two hemispheres of the cerebrum of our brain (left and right, physically connected by the Corpus Callosum) were unified … Continue reading →

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Walking and Singing

Posted on April 9, 2021 by Ron Pavellas

Our Hunting, Wandering and Gathering Heritage This excursion into that which is asserted to be inescapably human began with the reading of The Songlines by Bruce Chatwin,. I quote here from Wikipedia’s entry for the book: The basic idea that … Continue reading →

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