The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
by:
Julian Jaynes (author)
At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this...
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At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion -- and indeed our future.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780618057078 (0618057072)
ASIN: 618057072
Publish date: August 15th 2000
Publisher: Mariner Books
Pages no: 512
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Science,
Biology,
Religion,
Philosophy,
Sociology,
Psychology,
Neuroscience,
Evolution,
Brain
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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