Reflections on the Dawn of Consciousness:
Julian Jaynes's Bicameral Mind Theory Revisited


Table of Contents


Contributors v
Foreword by Michael A. Persinger vii
Preface xi
Introduction by Marcel Kuijsten 1

PART I
Julian Jaynes

1. Julian Jaynes: Introducing His Life and Thought 13
William R. Woodward & June F. Tower

PART II
Voices of the Mind

2.

The Ghost of a Flea: Visions of William Blake 71
Julian Jaynes

3.

Verbal Hallucinations and Preconscious Mentality 75
Julian Jaynes

4.

Consciousness, Hallucinations, and the Bicameral Mind: Three Decades of New Research 95
Marcel Kuijsten

5.

Auditory Hallucinations in Nonverbal Quadriplegics 141
John Hamilton

PART III
Consciousness and the Self

6.

Language and Consciousness: Jaynes's "Preposterous Idea" Reconsidered 169
John Limber

7.

The Self as Interiorized Social Relations: Applying a Jaynesian Approach to Problems of Agency and Volition 203
Brian J. McVeigh

8.

A Knowing Noos and a Slippery Psychę: Jaynes's Recipe for an Unnatural Theory of Consciousness 233
Scott Greer

PART IV
The Origin of Religion

9.

The Oracles and Their Cessation: A Tribute to Julian Jaynes 267
David C. Stove

PART V
Ancient Civilizations

10.

The Meaning of King Tut 297
Julian Jaynes

11.

Greek Zombies: On the Alleged Absurdity of Substantially Unconscious Greek Minds 303
Jan Sleutels

12.

Dragons of the Shang Dynasty: The Hidden Faces 337
Julian Jaynes

13.

The Shi ‘Corpse/Personator’ Ceremony in Early China 343
Michael Carr

Index

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