Mr. Jaynes’ Wild Ride (2013)

Mr. Jaynes’ Wild Ride (2013)

But these metaphors are weak compared to our culture’s dominant metaphor for consciousness: the idea of the mind as a container, a Unified Private Headspace. According to this metaphor, consciousness (or the mind) is a ‘space’ inside our heads within which all of our conscious experiences take place. Each of us has our own mind-container, separate and private from everyone else’s, which is the single, central, unified locus of all our mental processes: thinking, perception, motor control, decision-making, memory, language, imagination, emotions, judgments, awareness, and attention.

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