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To: carranza2 who wrote (27474)	1/15/2003 10:19:18 PM
From: AC Flyer	Read Replies (3) of 74559

>>"When Julian Jaynes...speculates that until late in the second millennium B.C. men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of gods....the revolutionary idea that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but is a learned process brought into being out of an earlier hallucinatory mentality by cataclysm and catastrophe only 3000 years ago and still developing"<< Sorry c2, this is utter raving bullshit, obviously written by someone with some kind of fundamentalist and/or kleptomaniacal agenda. If you have an interest in evolutionary biology I would recommend that you: (1) avoid Mr. Jaynes, and (2) read anything written by Stephen Jay Gould, who was a highly entertaining writer and had no difficulty separating science fact from science fantasy.

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