We know to much to command ourselves very far.

Conscious mind is a spatial analog of the world and mental acts are analogs of bodily acts. Consciousness operates only on objectively observable things. Or, to say it another way with echoes of John Locke, there is nothing in consciousness that is not an analog of something that was in behavior first.

This breakdown in the bicameral mind in what is called the Intermediate Period is reminiscent at least of those periodic breakdowns of Mayan civilizations when all authority suddenly collapsed, and the population melted back into tribal living in the jungles.

Indeed, it is sometimes almost as if the problem had to be forgotten to be solved.

Consciousness is always open to many possibilities because it involves play. It is always an adventure.

I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.

It is by metaphor that language grows.