I look forward to seeing attentive scrutiny turned to the later chapters, the claims of evidence of shocking historical neurodiversity. When people criticise the book, they’re usually talking about the first few chapters, to me that is not half as interesting as the claims about the strata of the human mind. If deliberative thought really has only been relatively recently evolved and then shunted (by further evolution? Or by a rapidly spreading global psycholinguistic monoculture?) into a unified self-transparent system, that would explain a lot of things.
I look forward to seeing attentive scrutiny turned to the later chapters, the claims of evidence of shocking historical neurodiversity. When people criticise the book, they’re usually talking about the first few chapters, to me that is not half as interesting as the claims about the strata of the human mind. If deliberative thought really has only been relatively recently evolved and then shunted (by further evolution? Or by a rapidly spreading global psycholinguistic monoculture?) into a unified self-transparent system, that would explain a lot of things.