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  1. Three thousand years ago, humans didn't narrate their actions: they obeyed voices they took for divine command. Julian Jaynes called this the bicameral mind. Its collapse produced the self we take for granted. Autism offers a present case where that narration isn't the default, a different architecture, not a deficit.

    medium.com/the-unexpected-auti

    #Autism #Neurodiversity #JulianJaynes #BicameralMind #Consciousness #PhilosophyOfMind