inspiration

When the last non-fiction book you read is Lost in the Cosmos, and then you start The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, things get a little EUREKA around your brain. The former is all about why people of all species have concept of self vs. other, and can't seem to integrate themselves into the cosmos, and are basically just screwed up. Not that it really answers these questions. Whereas the latter is all about how people used to hallucinate gods telling them what to do, and those parts of the brain still exist but don't do much in normal sane people. Of course it seems to be more of a working hypothesis, just like the aquatic ape theory, but it's a lot of fun so far.