Consciousness is a much smaller part of mental life than we are conscious of, since we cannot be conscious of what we aren’t conscious of.

Julian Jaynes
Julian Jaynes (1920-1997) American psychologist
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)

 
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