at 26:20 that's Campbell, not Julian Jaynes
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This is the first part of the series where I try to account for the dominance of visual metaphor in western culture and Indo-European languages. The western culture per se will be addressed in the second part, along with more emphasis on linguistic aspect.
Dominance of visual metaphor and the "eye" penetrates every layer of being in western thought as "seeing" is a foundational sense a sort of world-feeling from and trough which the western subject observes the nature. Vision in ancient Greece was understood as emitting light from the eyes, which will be resurfaced in the western culture once again, but now with higher intensity and magnitude. The emitting eye's of the Cyclops from X-Men is purely a western hero, which will be discussed in the following video, if this one generates interest.
As usual, the examination of this philosophical theme is multidisciplinary, drawing references from various authors and studies.
Do you know what is the best translation and most sincere translation of mind's eye in my native language? It's the "ear of the heart"
I hope you found the video interesting.

References:

Dawkins, Richard. The God Delusion. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2006.

Gebser, Jean. 2020. The Ever-Present Origin. Ohio University Press.

McGilchrist Iain. The Master and His Emissary : The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World. Yale University Press 2009.

Paglia, C. (1990). Sexual personae: Art and decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson.


Jaynes Julian. 1976. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Stephen A. Tyler, The Vision Quest in the West, or What the Mind's Eye Sees, Journal of Anthropological Research. Vol. 40, no. 1, Fortieth Anniversary Issue 1944-1984 (Spring, 1984), pp. 23-40 (18 pages)Published By: The University of Chicago Press

Spengler, Oswald, 1880-1936. The Decline of the West. New York :A. A. Knopf, 1928.

Aristotle and Richard Hope. 1966. Aristotle: Metaphysics. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Dawkins Richard. 1998. Unweaving the Rainbow: Science Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Ramachandran, V. S. (2011). The tell-tale brain: A neuroscientist's quest for what makes us human. W W Norton & Co.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4061881/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1053811918303173

---contents of the video---
00:00 - Introduction
00:49 - Aristotle and Dawkins
02:58 - Concept of the mind's eye
08:49 - Ancient Egypt - Apollonian EYE
17:01 - Neuro-Antrhopology
18:33 - Egyptian eye and the "way"
21:42 - Hybrid between culture and nature (Cats and Crocs)
22:50 - From Magic/Mythic to Mental (Greece)
25:43 - Lack of mental language in Illiad
32:03 - Vision as a primary metaphor (Mind's eye)
34:17 - Necessary distance (Mcgilchrist)
34:37 - East vs West
37:54 - Greek myths and Oedipus
39:44 - Presocratics and Thales
41:27 - Plato and theory of forms (Theorein)
47:47 - Summary
48:10 - Next video (Western culture)
48:39 - Thank you Patreons
49:04 -


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