Algebraically Delicious on Mythryl: “During Jaynes’ times Homer's authorship of the Iliad and the Odyssey…”

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During Jaynes’ times Homer's authorship of the Iliad and the Odyssey was taken as true, but contemporary scholarship understands they were composed independently, as part of long oral traditions. Jaynes’s argument on consciousness is then flawed, because minstrels performed- not wrote the myths.

iflscience.comThe Strange Idea That Language And Art Emerged Long Before Human Consciousness, Which Only Appeared In 2000 BCEAccording to the idea, we used language and even composed the Iliad before human consciousness emerged, meaning it was written by a non-conscious mind.

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