His theory is really way out there. I prefer to think that Homer was just made up and not real as all religious books are. Will Durant's "Life of Greece, Story of Civilization, Vol II" irritated me to no end because the first 8 hours or so assumed Homer was based directly on real history. Now the...
I am giving Julian Jaynes’ The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (The Origin) four stars not because I’ve become a devoted follower of his theory – I haven’t – but because it reflects exactly how I feel about it – I “really liked it.” Jaynes writes in such a commanding m...
Either a work of unparalleled genius, or completely out-to-lunch loopy. No one, not even Richard Dawkins, appears quite certain which description to apply.____________________________________There are surprising resonances between Jaynes's ideas and those proposed by Feyerabend in Chapter 16 of Agai...
One of the most mind boggling books I have ever read. Jaynes' theory of the evolution of consciousness may be unprovable but he makes his case so eloquently and logically that it is hard to ignore. If it ever was proven, it would be a world changer on the level of the theory of evolution itself and ...
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