Well, how short is a short period of time?

From the Inductrial Revolution to now was a short period of time, relative to the existence of mankind, and look what's happened.

One of the most daring things about his argument I thought was that it was in fact a staggered change over a period of time ...

Thanks for setting this up. It's important to keep these ideas alive. I'll pop in to contribute when I feel I have something sensible to offer.

I read the book 12 ytears ago, when I was 18, and it's fair to say it changed my life. My undergraduate essays were peppered with it, as I found that ...

Did anyone else notice a strong Jaynesian flavour to Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials Trilogy.

The strongest parallel was the Daemons. For those who haven;t read the books, these are animal companions to every person, and they act very much as a bicameral voice would, and create a kind of analog ...

Interesting stuff (and hello to everyone).

I read the book as an attack on religion. This was amongst many other targets, and the death of God is almost a side-effect of the theory, rather than a key argument.

But doesn't he attempt to show that religious texts and records, iconography and various ...