Peter_de_Blanc comments on Open Thread: January 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Peter_de_Blanc 04 January 2010 06:04:50AM 0 points [-]

I just read about #2 on wikipedia. Wow. Science is so much weirder than science fiction.

Comment author: Blueberry 04 January 2010 07:39:44PM 0 points [-]

I should warn you that Julian Jaynes's theory may be more like science fiction than science. It's interesting speculation but it's still a very controversial theory (which is why I'd love to test it). Daniel Dennett has written a couple articles talking about how he's adapted parts of Jaynes's theory into his theories of consciousness, and his books discuss some of the experimental evidence which sheds some light on similar theories about consciousness.