Proto-thought, ancient reason?

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Do you suppose human thought evolved (just like our bodies did).

 

I was thinking, the dawn of man…

 

What if we started out just getting vague sensations of the world.

 

then evolved to feel a certain way about those inputs,

not actual thought but “proto-thought”.

 

then much later evolved “reason” to plan how to take best advantage of those inputs.

 

What if that sub thought early layer is still alive and well in the brain.

 

What say the reason part had to evolve totally different type language in order to work well.

 

What say the reason type of language can not interface with the proto mind.

 

What if dreams are the proto mind trying to talk to the reasoning mind, but they don’t speak the same language …but they try and try to talk.

 

just a theory, any thoughts ?

[Ophiolite]

You may be interested to read The Origin of Consciousness in the

Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Princeton University psychologist Julian Jaynes.

Here is Amazon's summary of the work:

At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion -- and indeed our future.

 

Further information here: http://www.julianjaynes.org/index.html

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thanks for that.

 

relief!

 

so glad that I'm not the only one who thought of this.

 

 

 

tx reverse.