31 August 2004 - bicameral mind

Normal: I was just reading Julian Jaynes, on the bicameral mind—
Mean: —which has stayed broken down ever since.
Weird: Bicameral? Is that about stereo vision?
Normal: He says humans weren’t conscious until the right brain hemisphere lost dominance.
Weird: Ah, a refreshing speculation next to the alphabet soup of neurophysiology. Memorize it and eat it!
Normal: Um.
Weird: If my home is a castle, my memory palace is a place. I see a definite possibility of a possible definition of the Schenectady synechdoche.
Normal: Are you nuts or what?
Mean: Hey, no harshin’ on the Martian.
Weird: It bites to be a shark. Once more to the beach, dear friends!