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Home > Articles by: Brian J. McVeigh

Author: Brian J. McVeigh

A Relay-Race Model of Conscious Interiority
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A Relay-Race Model of Conscious Interiority—A Cultural Invention, Consciousness Needs to Be Relearned with Each Generation

March 23, 2021April 19, 2021 Brian J. McVeigh 0 Comments

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
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Consciousness Is a Cultural Add-on — A Product of History Not Reducible to Neurology, Conscious Interiority Is Like Mathematics

March 2, 2021March 23, 2021 Brian J. McVeigh 0 Comments

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
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Jaynesian Therapeutics and the Self-healing Mind: Part 2 — Lessons from Hallucinations, Hypnosis, and Meditation

February 16, 2021March 3, 2021 Brian J. McVeigh 0 Comments

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
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Jaynesian Therapeutics and the Self-healing Mind: Part 1 — Harnessing the Active Ingredients of Psychotherapy

February 9, 2021March 1, 2021 Brian J. McVeigh 0 Comments

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

January 26, 2021February 9, 2021 Brian J. McVeigh 0 Comments

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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Julian Jaynes Prince Edward Island
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Appreciating Other Facets of Jaynesian Psychology: Part 1

January 19, 2021January 25, 2021 Brian J. McVeigh 2 Comments

Jaynesian psychology can be distilled down to two major claims. First, until about three millennia ago individual behavior was governed

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