Julian Jaynes "The Origins of Consciousness and the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind"
Thanks to Tom Mardikes, who draws our attention to this theory on the relationship between language and the evolution of human consciousness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Jaynes
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