Julian Jaynes Society Summer 2023 Newsletter

“End of Summer” Reading Sale!

Now through Thursday, August 31st, enjoy 10% off our latest book, Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind on Amazon or the JJS website:

Including in-depth interviews with Stanford anthropology professor Tanya Luhrmann, UC Berkeley psychology professor emeritus John Kihlstrom, and many others, this book answers the most common questions people have about Jaynes’s theory and extends the theory into many new areas.

(If you live outside of the U.S., your best option is to purchase the book through your country’s Amazon website or via special order from your favorite bookstore.)

If you’re already enjoyed the book, please help others discover it by writing a positive review on Amazon, Goodreads, or the Julian Jaynes Society website.

Professor Tanya Luhrmann
Hearing Voices, Sensed Presences, and Imagined “Others”
Read the full interview in Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind

Plus Professor John Schedel, “Julian Jaynes and Owen Barfield on the Origins, Nature, and Trajectory of Consciousness,” and more!

Consciousness as “Super-perception”:
Like Technological Innovations and Linguistic Coinages, Consciousness Greatly Extends Our Senses, Increasing Adaptability
by Brian J. McVeigh

“People commonly confuse and conflate sensory perception with Jaynesian consciousness. Indeed, this is why in much of my writing I have stressed their distinction. However, here I argue that despite their important differences, they are nevertheless intimately related. …” Read more

Fact Checking Erik Hoel’s The World behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science
by Brian J. McVeigh

“In the second chapter of The World behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science, Erik Hoel briefly treats the historical development of what he calls the “intrinsic perspective” (mental experiences). In doing so he brings up the contributions of Julian Jaynes but dismisses his theories. Whatever value the arguments of Hoel’s book might have, he greatly distorts and misrepresents the Jaynesian perspective. …” Read more

The Julian Jaynes Society’s Marcel Kuijsten and filmmaker Brendan Leahy filming an interview with Dr. Clive Svendsen for a potential Julian Jaynes documentary at the Regenerative Medicine Institute at Cedars-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles. Stay tuned for additional updates and behind-the-scenes footage!

Plus Paul Evans, “Julian Jaynes, the Noosphere, Altered States and Consciousness Evolution,” and more!

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