Julian Jaynes…all you need to know. He completely outlined how language produces consciousness. It is all intertwined in his book (The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind) and is occluded by all the schizophrenic voices of gods parts, which is the ‘breakdown’. When you strip all that off and put his book through a Dennett filter, Voilà, you have human consciousness as mediated by language. You also have to have a recursive language (see Chomsky) and it need not be spoken, so ASL, a recursive language, lets the deaf develop full consciousness. Just magical!
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