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  2. Jaynes proposes that consciousness is a learned behavior rooted in language and culture rather than being innate. He distinguishes consciousness from sensory awareness and cognition. Jaynes introduces the concept of the "bicameral mind", a non-conscious mentality prevalent in early humans that relied on auditory hallucinations.

  3. Bicameral mentality - Wikipedia

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    An early criticism by philosopher Ned Block argued that Jaynes had confused the emergence of consciousness with the emergence of the concept of consciousness. In other words, according to Block, humans were conscious all along but did not have the concept of consciousness and thus did not discuss it in their texts.

  4. Pre-existence - Wikipedia

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    In 1833, early in the Latter Day Saint movement, its founder Joseph Smith taught that human souls are co-eternal with God the Father just as Jesus is co-eternal with God the Father, "Man was also in the beginning with God. Intelligence, or the light of truth, was not created or made, neither indeed can be."

  5. Existence precedes essence - Wikipedia

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    The three-word formula originated in his 1945 [6] lecture "Existentialism Is a Humanism", though antecedent notions can be found in Heidegger's Being and Time. [ 7 ] As a result, for Sartre, "existence precedes essence" not only defines and determines his own existential thinking or interpretation of existentialism, but also any thinking or ...

  6. The Origins and History of Consciousness - Wikipedia

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    The Origins and History of Consciousness (German: Ursprungsgeschichte des Bewusstseins) is a 1949 book by the psychologist and philosopher Erich Neumann, in which the author attempts to "outline the archetypal stages in the development of consciousness". It was first published in English in 1954 in a translation by R. F. C. Hull.

  7. Pre-sectarian Buddhism - Wikipedia

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    This nirvana, as a transmundane reality or state, an "eternal vijñana" and is incarnated in the person of the Buddha. The more radical anatman doctrine does not apply to this. Nirvana can be reached because it already dwells as the inmost "consciousness" of the human being. It is a consciousness which is not subject to birth and death.

  8. The Phenomenon of Man - Wikipedia

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    Layers of consciousness will converge in Omega, fusing and consuming them in itself. [15] The concentration of a conscious universe will reassemble in itself all consciousnesses as well as all that we are conscious of. [16] Teilhard emphasizes that each individual facet of consciousness will remain conscious of itself at the end of the process ...

  9. Collective unconscious - Wikipedia

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    The existence of the collective unconscious means that individual consciousness is anything but a tabula rasa and is not immune to predetermining influences. On the contrary, it is in the highest degree influenced by inherited presuppositions, quite apart from the unavoidable influences exerted upon it by the environment.