Jaynes, Julian. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. 1. Mariner Books ed. A Mariner Book. Boston New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. [[2020-06-05]] >Poems are rafts clutched at by men drowning in inadequate minds. And this unique factor, this importance of poetry in a devastating social chaos, is the reason why Greek consciousness specifically fluoresces into that brilliant intellectual light which is still illuminating our world. (p. 256) Seven words: thumos, phrenes, noos, psyche, kradie, ker, and etor. These later took on mental meanings, such as mind, spirit and psyche. But at the time of the Iliad, they still referred to specific bodily locations or functions. The stress of having to make a decision is what causes hallucinated voices, whether in schizophrenics or in bicameral man. These stresses would have increased as the bicameral mind progressively broke down. In the Iliad, mentions of the above mind-words would be followed by the appearance of a god. Therefore, the body picks up on the stress first, and then the mind responds with a voice making a decision. Hypostasis - Greek word meaning what stands under. The mind-words are preconscious hypostases, they are "seats of reaction." thumos - occurs most frequently in the Iliad. Refers to the stress response of the nervous system leading to release of adrenalin and noradrenalin phrenes - refers to respiratory changes. Increase in rate of breathing, and even the ratio of inspiration to expiration kradie - later came to be spelled kardia, and then cardiac. etor - the gastro-intestinal tract