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<blockquote data-quote="zubenelgenubi" data-source="post: 4857945" data-attributes="member: 63706">Ever hear of the bicameral mind theory? They say It&#039;s been disproven, but we definitely have two separate control centers, one in each half of our brain. They demonstrate this in seizure patients who had their corpus collosum (the nerve bundle that connects the two hemispheres) severed. The one side of the body can respond to stimuli completely independent of knowledge of the other side. The difference between the two sides is that the speech center is in the left hemisphere.Now, imagine a time when humans first started developing language, could you imagine how alien it must have been to &quot;hear&quot; words in your mind. What we take for granted as normal thought, must have seem like some sort of spirit speaking to them.Now imagine if we once had speech centers in both hemispheres at one point. I sometimes wonder if schizophrenics have regressive genes which causes them to still have multiple speech centers.The right hemisphere is associated with the subconcious, the part of our brain that is constantly on the alert for danger. If you had a speech center there, you would be hearing all sorts of crazy scary stuff, all the time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="zubenelgenubi, post: 4857945, member: 63706"] Ever hear of the bicameral mind theory? They say It's been disproven, but we definitely have two separate control centers, one in each half of our brain. They demonstrate this in seizure patients who had their corpus collosum (the nerve bundle that connects the two hemispheres) severed. The one side of the body can respond to stimuli completely independent of knowledge of the other side. The difference between the two sides is that the speech center is in the left hemisphere. Now, imagine a time when humans first started developing language, could you imagine how alien it must have been to "hear" words in your mind. What we take for granted as normal thought, must have seem like some sort of spirit speaking to them. Now imagine if we once had speech centers in both hemispheres at one point. I sometimes wonder if schizophrenics have regressive genes which causes them to still have multiple speech centers. The right hemisphere is associated with the subconcious, the part of our brain that is constantly on the alert for danger. If you had a speech center there, you would be hearing all sorts of crazy scary stuff, all the time. [/QUOTE]

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