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Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind both explains Julian Jaynes’s theory and explores a wide range of related topics such as the ancient Dark Age, the nature of dreams and the birth of Greek tragedy, poetic inspiration, the significance of hearing voices in both the ancient and modern world, the development of consciousness in children, vestiges of bicameralism and the transition to ...
Nov 21, 1997 · Julian Jaynes. Julian Jaynes was an American psychologist, best known for his book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, in which he argued that consciousness is a cultural development based on metaphorical language that occurred 3,000 years ago. Prior to the development of consciousness, humans operated under a ...
Jun 2, 2020 · Julian Jaynes’ The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind is a brilliant book, with only two minor flaws. First, that it purports to explains the origin of consciousness. And second, that it posits a breakdown of the bicameral mind. I think it’s possible to route around these flaws while keeping the thesis otherwise ...
Other outstanding chapters examine the vestiges of the bicameral mind through firsthand accounts of voice-hearers and TLE visionaries, all of them notably articulate. There are in-depth spelunks into the territories of child-development, imaginary friends, hypnosis, theory of mind, linguistics, psychology, history, Tibetan studies, religion ...
The Mind of Man . 1. The Consciousness of Consciousness 21 . 2. Consciousness 48 3. The Mind of Iliad 67 . 4. The Bicameral Mind 84 5. The Double Brain 100 . 6. The Origin of Civilization 126 Book II . The Witness of History . 1. Gods, Graves, and Idols 149 2. Literate Bicameral Theocracies 176 . 3. The Causes of Consciousness 204 4. A Change ...
Praise for Julian Jaynes’s Bicameral Mind Theory. “…. A theory that could alter our view of consciousness, revise our conception of the history of mankind, and lay bare the human dilemma in all its existential wonder.”. “Quite possibly a book of the century.”. —Douglas Adams, author of the best seller The Hitchhiker’s Guide to ...
The tremendous explanatory power of Jaynes’s ideas force us to reevaluate much of what we thought we knew about human history. Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind both explains Julian Jaynes’s theory and explores a wide range of related topics such as the ancient Dark Age, the nature of dreams and the birth of Greek tragedy, poetic ...
