AI Is Changing Our Brains – argodesign – Medium

In 1976, philosopher Julian Jaynes issued the provocative theory that recent ancestors lacked self-awareness. Instead, they mistook their inner voices for outside sources–the voice of God, say, or the ghosts of their ancestors. Jaynes called his theory "bicameralism" (Westworld fans will recall an episode from the last season called "The Bicameral Mind") and, in his telling, it persisted in early humans until about 3,000 years ago. We are in a similar pre-conscious state now, but the voice we hear is not the other side of our brains. It's our digital self–a version of us that is quickly becoming inseparable from our physical self. I call this comingled digital and analog self our "Meta Me."