History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.
Julian JaynesCivilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.
Julian JaynesWe have said that consciousness is an operation rather than a thing, a repository, or a function. It operates by way of analogy, by way of constructing an analog space with an analog 'I' that can observe that space, and move metaphorically in it. It operates on any reactivity, excerpts relevant aspects, narratizes and conciliates them together in a metaphorical space where such meanings can be manipulated like things in space.
Julian Jaynes