Putting Julian Jaynes’s Theory to the Test
It is easy to forget that the Newtonian, Darwinian, and Einsteinian intellectual edifices were built over many years, painstakingly …
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Author: Brian J. McVeigh
Conscious Interiority Is a Constellation of Processes — But Attention-grabbing Headlines in the Scientific Literature Mistakenly Suggest that Consciousness is an All-purpose Psychological Stuff
Pretend you’re from another dimension and unfamiliar with cars, planes, trains, and ships. But you quickly notice what they share in common: …
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Conscious Interiority and the Language Trap — Why We Struggle to Explain Consciousness
Cleaning up the mess surrounding the uses of “consciousness” is not an airy, abstruse, or esoteric subject, a topic only for absent-minded …
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A Relay-Race Model of Conscious Interiority — A Cultural Invention, Consciousness Needs to Be Relearned with Each Generation
The word “consciousness” usually evokes something neuroanatomical, intimately bound up with perceptual experiences, an evolutionary …
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Consciousness Is a Cultural Add-on — A Product of History Not Reducible to Neurology, Conscious Interiority Is Like Mathematics
When we hear the word “consciousness” many of us, in a knee-jerk manner, associate it with neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, or something …
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Jaynesian Therapeutics and the Self-healing Mind: Part 2 — Lessons from Hallucinations, Hypnosis, and Meditation
In Part 1 we looked at how something we take for granted—consciousness—is actually an active ingredient that can aid in the repair of the …
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Jaynesian Therapeutics and the Self-healing Mind: Part 1 — Harnessing the Active Ingredients of Psychotherapy
It is an interesting fact that the success rates for different psychotherapies are about the same. This is why researchers have searched …
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Appreciating Other Facets of Jaynesian Psychology: Part 2
In Part 1 of “Appreciating Other Facets of Jaynesian Psychology” I began a discussion of aspects of Jaynesian psychology that if appreciated, add depth and perhaps persuasiveness to Jaynes’s arguments. I focused on how understanding Jaynes investigation of how language has constructed consciousness interiority. …
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Appreciating Other Facets of Jaynesian Psychology: Part 1
Jaynesian psychology can be distilled down to two major claims. First, until about three millennia ago individual behavior was governed
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