In this video I discuss the nature of consciousness and how it is fundamentally related to language. This fact was noticed by numerous thinkers including Nietzsche, Jung, and Julian Jaynes. This theory is largely based on Jaynes' theory but many philosophers have reached the same conclusions.
Sources: Julian Jaynes, The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Friedrich Nietzsche, Miscellaneous
Carl Jung, The Stages of Life
John Lakoff , Conceptual Metaphor in Everyday Language
Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary
