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Home > Articles by: Marcel Kuijsten

Author: Marcel Kuijsten

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His Dark Materials & The Bicameral Mind

October 22, 2020January 18, 2021 Marcel Kuijsten 0 Comments

It’s been said that Philip Pullman, who wrote “His Dark Materials,” drew inspiration from Julian Jaynes, with the characters’ spirit-animals

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Neuroscience Confirms Julian Jaynes’s Neurological Model

June 10, 2020August 18, 2020 Marcel Kuijsten 0 Comments

Beginning in 1999, research began to emerge confirming Julian Jaynes’s neurological model for the bicameral mind: fMRI studies showing a

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Ten Questions Critics Fail to Answer About Julian Jaynes’s Theory

October 28, 2019April 26, 2020 Marcel Kuijsten 0 Comments

Critics of Jaynes’s theory generally attempt to show that Jaynes was wrong on one or two very specific points, and

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Myth 9: The “mirror test” measures consciousness

September 24, 2019April 26, 2020 Marcel Kuijsten 0 Comments

Myth 9: Chimpanzees can recognize themselves in a mirror, and this “provides clear evidence of self-awareness in chimpanzees” (Griffin, 1978).

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Myth 8: The voices were actual gods or entities

September 22, 2019July 24, 2020 Marcel Kuijsten 0 Comments

Myth 8: Jaynes argues that people in ancient times heard the actual voices of gods or other supernatural entities. Fact: I

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Myth 7: Confusing bicamerality with schizophrenia

September 20, 2019June 30, 2020 Marcel Kuijsten 0 Comments

Myth 7: Confusing bicamerality with schizophrenia, or thinking that Jaynes claimed that people in ancient civilizations suffered from mental illness.

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Myth 6: Neuroscience has disconfirmed Jaynes’s ideas

September 18, 2019April 26, 2020 Marcel Kuijsten 0 Comments

Myth 6: More recent studies in neuroscience have disconfirmed Jaynes’s ideas. Fact: Quite the opposite. Recent neuroimaging studies have largely confirmed

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Myth 5: Jaynes’s theory has been “debunked”

September 16, 2019April 26, 2020 Marcel Kuijsten 0 Comments

Myth 5: Jaynes’s theory has been “debunked” or Jaynes’s theory has been disproven. Fact: There are no substantive critiques of Jaynes’s

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Myth 4: The gods in the Iliad were “just a literary device”

September 14, 2019April 26, 2020 Marcel Kuijsten 0 Comments

Myth 4: The gods in the Iliad were “just a literary device;” the Iliad is “just a story” and as

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Myth 3: Jaynes’s theory does not apply to cultures outside of the Eastern Mediterranean

September 12, 2019September 3, 2020 Marcel Kuijsten 0 Comments

Myth 3: Jaynes’s theory does not apply to cultures outside of the Eastern Mediterranean. Fact: This origin of this misconception is

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