I would prefer not to.

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Do you know where you are? I’m in a dream.

-”But he had a notion of what it might be. He based it on a theory of consciousness called the Bicameral Mind. The idea that primitive man believed his thoughts to be the voice of the gods. See, Arnold built a version of that cognition in which the hosts heard their programming as an inner monologue, with the hopes that in time, their own voice would take over. It was a way bootstrap consciousness. But Arnold hadn’t considered two things. One, that in this place, the last thing you want the hosts to be is conscious, and two, the other group who considered their thoughts to be the voices of the gods. Lunatics. We abandoned the approach. The only vestiges that remain are the voice commands we use to control them.”

Dr. Robert Ford, Westworld 1x3 “The Stray”

Bicameralism (the philosophy of “two-chamberedness”) is a hypothesis in psychology that argues that the human mind once assumed a state in which cognitive functions were divided between one part of the brain which appears to be “speaking”, and a second part which listens and obeys—a bicameral mind. The term was coined by Julian Jaynes, who presented the idea in his 1976 book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, wherein he made the case that a bicameral mentality was the normal and ubiquitous state of the human mind as recently as 3000 years ago.

It’s Bigger Than Us, David Schermann

Vienna-based artist and photographer David Schermann explores concepts of existence, space, and love in his ongoing series It’s Bigger Than Us. 

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