I suppose, for completeness, we should consider the reverse pos-sibility. Rather than gods evolving from ancestral binkers, couldbinkers have evolved from ancestral gods? This seems to me lesslikely. I was led to think about it while reading the American psy-chologist Julian Jaynes's The Origin of Consciousness in theBreakdown of the Bicameral Mind, a book that is as strange as itstitle suggests. It is one of those books that is either complete rub-bish or a work of consummate genius, nothing in between!Probably the former, but I'm hedging my bets.

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