On The Bicameral Mind Concept

A Link to all topics discussed at end of post. 

Quick Summary: Bicameralism is a psychological hypothesis coined by Julian Jaynes in his 1976 book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. The book brings up the idea that just 3000 years ago humans
were not truly conscious, but had a simpler form of consciousness in which a part of the brain, unable to cause actions in the body but dealt with language, hallucinated voices to other parts of the brain able to cause actions in the body. The hypothesis goes deeper into the subject of gods and provides evidence for the claims (The hypothesis for the most part has been "disproved" (It truly can't be unless we go back in time) )... But that's not what I'm discussing about in this post. I'd like to revolve this post around the idea of "Full consciousness" and whether or not we truly are conscious. 

The book goes on to propose that the human mind departed from bicameralism as a result of more complex social situations during the second millennium BCE. What I'm proposing is that what if Bicameralism is still ongoing silently not dormant but with us fully unaware of it. Part of the criticism Julian Jaynes was met by was the unlikely hood of such a ginormous change in human thinking in such a small period of time, so I'm proposing what if truly Bicameralism never quite left but slowly became more silent throughout the ages, by this I mean: Do you actually control your actions? 

Before I proceed I'd also like to bring up 2 topics: Split Brains & Anton–Babinski syndrome. In split-brain patients, each hemisphere of the brain is separated leading to each side having a mind of its own. The audible side of the brain at times tries to make sense out of strange situations for example: "A patient with split-brain is shown a picture of a chicken and a snowy field in separate visual fields (The snowy field shown to the left eye (dealt with by the right hemisphere of the brain(non-audible)), and the chicken shown to the right eye (dealt with by the left hemisphere (audible))) and when asked to choose from a list of words that best associate with the pictures seen, the patient would choose a chicken foot to associate with the chicken (with their right hand) and a shovel to associate with the snow (with their left hand); however, when asked to reason why the patient chose the shovel, the response would relate to the chicken." (As the right hemisphere only saw the chicken and not the snow) 

In Anton Babinski syndrome patients who are blind due to brain damage still claim to see and give reasons for their errors, for example, It may be some days before the relatives, or the nursing staff, stumble onto the fact that the patient has actually become sightless. This is not only because the patient ordinarily does not volunteer the information that they have become blind, but furthermore misleads his entourage by behaving and talking as though they were sighted." 

These two topics show how the brain deals with dissonance and inconsistencies by unconsciously lying to itself. This is what I want to focus on, what if our actions are still carried out through bicameralism, but we unconsciously lie to our selves that we are the cause of our actions. This small change could have happened more gradually even during the time of general bicameralism. Even though bicameralism has been disproven for the most part I feel this adds more to the table. A sort of thought-provoking idea because truly, was it really you that opened this page or do you just want to believe so... 😐

References:
Bicameralism: 
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism_(psychology)
Anton Babinski Syndrome: 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton–Babinski_syndrome
Split Brains:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain