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Not necessarily, could be a change in environment. E.g. teaching people to read by imagining a voice in their head teaches them the voice is their own.

It's probably BS though.

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That also implies isolated populations would not have the same sense of consciousness until they gain literacy or whatever else has that effect?

If consciousness results from language and culture then some cultures will lack it.

That’s not a biological change.

Learning anything biologically changes your brain.

So basically "Reflections on Trusting Trust"? Children of changed society are also changed?

Obviously? That's why we all grow up addicted to tiktok now, when we didn't 30 years ago.

Writing and reading existed before the Ancient Greeks, including China and Mesoamerica.

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