Any thoughts on "bicameralism"?

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So, I have my own affection for the theories of Julian Jaynes and Iain McGilchrist. Is the community here familiar with those authors, do any of you have an opinion of their work?

Personally, I like to tease out the notion of a pre-conscious society and place their works in a potentially wider category that identifies civilizations as having a mental component not unlike a psychiatric disorder. The particular quirks of thinking that medicine associates with specific mental disorders, an impartial observer would be able to discern in the people of different civilizations.

Pretending I made my point more clearly than I have and then jumping to the conclusion, I like to think of cultures as defined around a dominant mental disorder, delusion or psychosis, that in short, culture is a mental illness. Without the shared mental life that cannot be rooted in anything more concrete than belief, I think cultures fall apart or are unable to propagate themselves. I think a lot of the kerfuffle of the modern age is about this imagined and real competition between different historical traditions and where people privately imagine it will lead in the future.

Well, suffice it to say, I have my own creative theories about society and I consider Jaynes' work an inspiring jumping off-point I would recommend. I'd love to hear anyone else's opinions even slightly relating to bicameralism.

I decided to post this here, on the reasoning that if civilization or individual consciousness itself is the product of a learned, perhaps delusional belief, then isn't society itself sort of a subconscious conspiracy in which we all take part?