Julian Jaynes, in his book "The Origin of Conmsciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind" makes a comparable assessment regarding concsiousness (p. 2):

"Men have been conscious of the problem of consciousness almost since consciousness began. And each age has described consciousness in terms of its own theme and concerns. In the golden age of Greece, when men traveled about in freedom while slaves did the work, consciousness was as free as that. Heraclitus, in particular, called it an enormous space whose boundaries, even by traveling along every path, could never be found out. A millennium later, Augustine among the caverned hills of Carthage was astonished at the 'mountains and hills of my high imaginations,' 'the plains and caves and caverns of my memory' with its recesses of 'manifold and spacious chambers, wonderfully furnished with unnumberable stores.' Note how the metaphors of mind are the world it perceives."

(emphasis added)