Julian Jaynes Society November/December 2021 Newsletter

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November/December 2021

Dear Members and Friends of the Julian Jaynes Society,

We hope you had an enjoyable holiday season! Here are the latest updates from the Julian Jaynes Society:

• Watch two new interviews with Brian McVeigh on Julian Jaynes’s theory: “Dr. Brian McVeigh on Julian Jaynes” and “Applications of Jaynesian Theory to Psychology and the Origin of Religion”;

• New for Members: Read a newly discovered interview with Julian Jaynes; watch John Hainly’s lecture, “A Missing Piece of the Puzzle: Jaynes and the Psychology of Religion,” read new related articles, and much more.

• In the coming months we will begin taking pre-orders for our new book, Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind… please stay tuned! In the meantime, catch up on other Julian Jaynes Society publications and digital audio programs.

Sincerely,

Marcel Kuijsten,
Executive Director

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New Interviews on Julian Jaynes’s Theory

Watch two new interviews on Jaynes’s theory with Brian J. McVeigh:

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Read a newly discovered interview with Julian Jaynes!

Watch John Hainly’s lecture, “A Missing Piece of the Puzzle: Jaynes and the Psychology of Religion”

Plus new articles on the parallel evolution of language and auditory hallucinations, the relationship of thought and language, the guiding voices of children’s imaginary companions, the development of consciousness in childhood, and more.

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Julian Jaynes Society September/October 2021 Newsletter

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September/October 2021

Dear Members and Friends of the Julian Jaynes Society,

Here is the latest news from the Julian Jaynes Society, as we work to put the finishing touches on our latest book Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind:

• Read the latest post from Brian McVeigh: “Disentangling Inner Speech, Self-dialogue, and Auditory Hallucinations”;

• Watch the latest lecture previews on YouTube;

• New for Members: Listen to a new lecture, “The Origin of Consciousness,” by Julian Jaynes; watch Carole Brooks Platt’s lecture, “The Right Mind of the Poet” and Martin Kommor’s lecture, “The Role of Self-Reflection (and Reflective Supervision) in the Development of Psychiatric Residents,” read new related articles, and much more.

Sincerely,

Marcel Kuijsten,
Executive Director

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How are inner speech, self-dialogue, auditory imagery, and hallucinations related? And what exactly are hallucinations? Some have suggested that hallucinations are caused by a monitoring defect in inner speech … Such a claim, however, ignores the overwhelming evidence concerning hallucinations before about 1000 BCE. Any theoretical linkage must take into account one crucial datum: hallucinations were central to normal sociopsychological functioning. The ubiquity and important role of hallucinations in the ancient world as a mechanism for social control (until about the first millennium BCE). … Read more >

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Coming next month: A new interview with Julian Jaynes.

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Julian Jaynes Society July/August 2021 Newsletter

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July/August 2021

Dear Members and Friends of the Julian Jaynes Society,

We hope that you are all enjoying your summer. Here are the latest updates:

• We are pleased to announce that Professor Martin Seligman has joined the Julian Jaynes Society Science Advisory Board;

• Read the latest posts from Brian McVeigh: Has Human Mentality Changed?”, Parts 1 & 2;

• New for Members: Watch Elisabeth Bell Carroll’s lecture, “A Vestige of the Bicameral Mind in the Modern World” and Professor Clay McNearney’s lecture, “Robert Bellah and Julian Jaynes: An Imagined Conversation;” read articles that support Jaynes’s theory on split-brain research, the development of consciousness in children, and more.

• Coming in September: A new audio lecture by Julian Jaynes, and much more…

Sincerely,

Marcel Kuijsten,
Executive Director

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Professor Martin Seligman Joins the
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Professor Martin Seligman

The Julian Jaynes Society is honored to welcome Professor Martin Seligman to the Science Advisory Board!

Martin E.P. Seligman is the Zellerbach Family Professor of Psychology and Director of the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, where he focuses on positive psychology, learned helplessness, prospection, optimism and positive education. He is a best-selling author of several books, including Flourish. His most recent book is The Hope Circuit, his autobiography. He received the American Psychological Society’s William James Fellow Award for basic science, the Cattell Award for the application of science, and three Lifetime Distinguished Scientist awards from the American Psychological Association. In 1996, Seligman was elected President of the American Psychological Association by the largest vote in modern history. His mission is the attempt to transform social science to work on the best things in life – strengths, positive emotion, good relationships, meaning, and human flourishing.

Professor Seligman attended Julian Jaynes’s course on consciousness while an undergraduate student at Princeton University and he has maintained a long standing interest in Julian Jaynes’s theory.

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The media and scientific journals give much attention to “neuroplasticity” (the brain’s innate ability to form and reorganize synaptic connections in response to learning or injury), “neurodiversity” (variations in the brain regarding sociability, learning, attention, mood, and other various mental functions), “neurotypical,” and “neuroatypical.” … Read more >

In Part 1 of “Has Human Mentality Changed?” I discussed how the contributions of Julian Jaynes bolster a radical neuroplastic understanding of the mind. Here I want to explore some of the implications of psychic diversity. … Read more >

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New articles and dissertations supporting Jaynes’s theory on the development of consciousness in children, split-brain research, Julian Jaynes’s theory and Westworld, and more.

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Julian Jaynes Society June 2021 Newsletter

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June 2021

Dear Members and Friends of the Julian Jaynes Society,

We’re currently hard at work finishing up our latest book, Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind, due out this fall. Please stay tuned…

New this month, read the latest blog posts from Brian McVeigh: “Putting Julian Jaynes’s Theory to the Test” and “The Presence of an Absent Father.”

And new this month for members: Watch Dr. Dirk Corsten’s lecture “The Origins of Voices” and a rare documentary on the brain featuring Julian Jaynes. Also: New articles and dissertations on hearing voices, language and consciousness, split-brain research, and more.

Finally, please join us on Thursday, July 8th for the next installment of the Julian Jaynes Society Interview Series, where we’ll be speaking with Professor William Woodward on Julian Jaynes’s life.

Sincerely,

Marcel Kuijsten,
Executive Director

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It is easy to forget that the Newtonian, Darwinian, and Einsteinian intellectual edifices were built over many years, painstakingly solidified brick by brick through batteries of well-designed experiments and careful analyses. Science is the sturdy house that such patient construction continually erects. Consider the work of Julian Jaynes. Over the years I have heard many say “it’s an interesting theory but it can’t be proved.” … Read more >

While giving a talk some years ago at a conference about Julian Jaynes on Prince Edward Island in Canada, a member of the audience asked if I thought that the loss of Julian Jaynes’s father at age two in some way shaped his theorizing about hallucinating voices of supernatural beings. It was a fair question. But at the time, being more interested in the singular intellectual achievements of Jaynes himself, to me the question seemed a bit irrelevant. Though I’m still not sure if this line of thinking is completely valid — i.e., in an attempt to replace his missing father, Jaynes came up with the notion of hallucinated voices from authoritative (paternalistic) figures — there might be something there. … Read more >

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Professor William Woodward – Memories of Julian Jaynes
Thursday, July 8, 2021, 4:00pm Pacific Time/7:00pm Eastern Time
The Julian Jaynes Society Interview Series continues with an interview with Professor William Woodward on his memories of Julian Jaynes and details of Julian Jaynes’s life. The interview will be followed by Q&A with the event participants.

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A rare documentary on the brain, shown by Julian Jaynes to his “Psychology of Consciousness” students, and featuring a brief interview with Julian Jaynes.

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Julian Jaynes Society May 2021 Newsletter

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May 2021

Dear Members and Friends of the Julian Jaynes Society,

We’re pleased to announce that the revised hardcover edition of The Julian Jaynes Collection was just released. We’re also excited to announce two new members of the Science Advisory Board: Professor Edoardo Casiglia and Professor Laurence Sugarman.

Be sure to read the latest blog post from Brian J. McVeigh, “Conscious Interiority Is a Constellation of Processes.” And new this month for members: Todd Gibson’s “Buddhism and Bicamerality” and the first four parts of last month’s Q&A session on Julian Jaynes’s theory.

Please join us on June 17th for the next installment of the Julian Jaynes Society Interview Series, where we’ll be speaking with Professor Laurence Sugarman on hypnosis, placebo effects, the bicameral mind, and a range of other topics.

Sincerely,

Marcel Kuijsten,
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We are pleased to announce the release of the revised hardcover edition of The Julian Jaynes Collection in the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and United Kingdom. It will soon be available for order wherever books are sold. This beautifully produced book has the cover art printed right on the case, similar to a textbook, so no dust jacket to lose or get torn. Perfect for Jaynes enthusiasts, collectors, and libraries!

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Pretend you’re from another dimension and unfamiliar with cars, planes, trains, and ships. But you quickly notice what they share in common: Motion. You’re interested in discovering exactly how these contraptions work and decide that to understand them you need to investigate motion-ness. So you begin to take them apart, piece by piece, looking for the essence of movement. However, try as you might, you can’t discover the mysterious potency animating the operation of going from point A to point B. But you’re absolutely convinced that motion-ness must exist somewhere in or around anything imbued with the power of mobility … Read more >

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Professor Laurence Sugarman – Hypnosis, Placebo Effects, and the Bicameral Mind
Thursday, June 17, 2021, 4:30pm Pacific Time/7:30pm Eastern Time
The Julian Jaynes Society Interview Series continues with an interview with Professor Laurence Sugarman, M.D., FAAP, ABMH, Research Professor & Director, Center for Applied Psychophysiology and Self-regulation, Rochester Institute of Technology, on the changing nature of hypnosis, placebo effects, the role of authorization, and hypnosis as a vestige of the bicameral mind. The interview will be followed by Q&A with the event participants. Read Professor Sugarman’s biography below.

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Edoardo Casiglia and Laurence Sugarman

The Julian Jaynes Society welcomes Professor Edoardo Casiglia and Professor Laurence Sugarman to the Science Advisory Board. Both have extensive backgrounds in science, medicine, and hypnosis, as well as long-standing interest in Julian Jaynes’s theory, and we are greatly honored to have them.

Edoardo Casiglia, MD is Professor of Internal Medicine at University of Padova. He is a specialist in cardiology, pharmacology, anesthesia and intensive care, a clinical hypertension specialist, and an anthropologist and forensic archeologist. He is also a trained hypnotist, hypnotherapist, hypnosis instructor, and is former Editor in Chief of the Journal Contemporary Hypnosis. He has published 14 books and authored or co-authored over 400 scientific works on a range of diverse subjects such as cardiology, hypertension, hypnosis, hypnotherapy, and consciousness.

Laurence Sugarman, MD is Research Professor and Director of the Center for Applied Psychophysiology and Self-regulation in the College of Health Sciences and Technology at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT); a developmental and behavioral pediatrician at the Easter Seals Diagnostic and Treatment Center in Rochester, New York; and Clinical Professor in Pediatrics at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Over two decades of primary care pediatric practice, Dr. Sugarman refined clinical biofeedback and hypnosis strategies that effectively increase resilience and coping skills for young people and families.

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In The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Julian Jaynes has painted a vivid picture of the collapse of archaic mentality in the Near East and in Ancient Greece, showing how what we in the modern world call “religion” underwent a major transformation. Previous to about the first millennium B.C., he says, humanity was not “conscious,” by which he means people did not have the capacity for introspection, of narratizing about past and future based on a concept of an internal self-existing in a metaphorical “inner space.” Instead, they were guided in unfamiliar situations by the dictates of “gods,” who were hallucinated voices (and sometimes visions) that had evolved as a side effect of language. These voices functioned as repositories of the accumulated wisdom of their societies, but were not cognized as being part of an individual’s psychological makeup; as such a notion was impossible for a pre-conscious mentality. Because these voices seem to have been localized in predominantly one hemisphere of the brain, Jaynes calls this early mentality “bicameral.” … Read more >

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April 2021

Dear Members and Friends of the Julian Jaynes Society,

We have a lot of new material to tell you about, including a new hardcover edition of Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind, the latest blog post from Brian McVeigh, a JJS exclusive interview with Boban Dedovic on “The Evolution of Mind Words in the Iliad and the Odyssey,” and much more…

Also be sure to join us for our upcoming Julian Jaynes Society informal online Q&A session, where participants can ask questions about the theory, share experiences, book recommendations, and more.

Sincerely,

Marcel Kuijsten,
Executive Director

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We are pleased to announce the release of the new hardcover edition of Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind in the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and United Kingdom. It will soon be available for order wherever books are sold. This beautifully produced book has the cover art printed right on the case, similar to a textbook, so no dust jacket to lose or get torn. Perfect for Jaynes enthusiasts, collectors, and libraries!

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Cleaning up the mess surrounding the uses of “consciousness” is not an airy, abstruse, or esoteric subject, a topic only for absent-minded academics with their heads in the clouds. This discussion has serious, profound, and practical implications. Neuroscientists employ terminology to delineate the differences between being asleep, in a coma, or in a state of ordinary consciously interiorized mentation. Physicians, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, counselors, and other mental health care providers need to be able to differentiate various forms of cognition to facilitate healing. …

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The Voice in Your Head
How a movement of people who hear voices is reshaping our understanding of mental illness – and consciousness itself.

Patsy Hage began hearing voices when she was eight years old. She was playing with her brother in the attic when her scarf caught alight on a candle. She would always remember running downstairs to her mother, her clothing on fire, convinced she was going to die. She was rushed to hospital and treated for serious burns. It was in hospital that the voices first started talking to her. She heard them for the rest of her life. …

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March 2021

Dear Members and Friends of the Julian Jaynes Society,

We have a lot of new material to tell you about, including the latest blog post from Brian McVeigh, a JJS Member Event coming up this Saturday, a new interview with Julian Jaynes, the first interview from our Julian Jaynes Society Interview Series, a lecture on Julian Jaynes’s theory from Rabbi James Cohn premiering this Thursday, and much more…

Also stay tuned for our first Julian Jaynes Society online “hang out,” an informal get together where participants can ask questions about the theory, share experiences and book recommendations, and more. We’ll be announcing a date and time soon.

Sincerely,

Marcel Kuijsten,
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When we hear the word “consciousness” many of us, in a knee-jerk manner, associate it with neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, or something physically inborn. We also link it to perceptual or cognitive processes that are non-historical and non-cultural. However, according to Jaynesian psychology, these are all misleading assumptions since consciousness is not necessary for perception, learning, and reasoning. It is extra-genetic and a product of sociocultural forces and it entered the historical scene relatively recently, about three millennia ago. Indeed, as a culturally-configured form of knowledge, consciousness is closer to mathematics or other domains of learning. Consciousness is a very special form of knowledge, of course, but an array of socially-acquired ideas nevertheless. Let’s consider how mathematics is similar to consciousness.

First, like mathematics, consciousness is acquired culturally; it is not a direct consequence of evolutionary forces. There is nothing innate about it. The capabilities that constitute consciousness are transmitted via socialization, not genetically, and therefore they must be re-enculturated anew for each generation. Consciousness is a constellation of culturally-acquired skills. …

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The Julian Jaynes Society interview series continues on Saturday, March 20th. Geared toward those already familiar with Jaynes’s theory, we’ll be going beyond the basics and exploring a wide-range of topics related to Julian Jaynes’s theory with experts from a variety of different backgrounds. RSVP for this event:

March 20, 2021, 12pm Pacific Time
Boban Dedovic – The Evolution of Mind Words in the Iliad and the Odyssey
An interview with Boban Dedovic, who is currently studying ancient languages at the University of Chicago. We’ll be taking a deep dive into Jaynes’s ancient Greek preconscious hypostases and looking at the new evidence for the evolution of mind words in the Iliad and Odyssey. The interview will be followed by Q&A with the event participants.

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“A Jaynesian Philology: The Bible as a Written Record of the Dawn of Consciousness”

Julian Jaynes Society Conference on Consciousness and Bicameral Studies

Premieres on Thursday, March 18, 2021 at 2:00 pm Pacific Time. Set a reminder and join us for live chat on YouTube during the premiere!

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February 2021

Dear Members and Friends of the Julian Jaynes Society,

This month a new article and interview on Jaynes’s theory, “Did the Bicameral Mind Evolve to Create Modern Human Consciousness?” was posted on the popular HowStuffWorks website, exposing many new people to Jaynes’s ideas.

We’re also kicking off our Member Events: an interview series where we’ll delve into different aspects of Jaynes’s theory with experts from a variety of different backgrounds. Event attendees will be able to participate in question and answer sessions as well as get to know other members of the Society. We hope you’ll join us for an upcoming event.

Finally, be sure to read the latest blog posts on the Julian Jaynes Society website.

Sincerely,

Marcel Kuijsten,
Executive Director

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Did the Bicameral Mind Evolve to Create Modern Human Consciousness?

By Robert Lamb

What is consciousness and how did it emerge in human beings?

Great thinkers have pondered these questions for ages – and the subject continues to intrigue us. We know that our mental state sets us apart from other animals. We also know we’re a product of evolution. Gradual changes occurred over time to make us what we are today. One of those changes is the emergence of consciousness.

But when exactly did this change take place? When did humans, or perhaps our pre-human ancestors, shift from a life of instinctual existence to a life of reason, reflection and inner complexity? Furthermore, what were we like before the change? How do we imagine humans without a modern consciousness?

Various hypotheses have tackled these mind-blowing questions, entailing everything from the limitations of human attention to quantum theory. The true answer remains elusive. Today, we are going to consider a single, somewhat controversial hypothesis: the bicameral mind. …

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The Julian Jaynes Society online interview series kicks off on Saturday, February 20th. Geared toward those already familiar with Jaynes’s theory, we’ll be going beyond the basics and exploring a wide-range of topics related to Julian Jaynes’s theory with experts from a variety of different backgrounds. RSVP for our upcoming events:

February 20, 2021, 12pm Pacific Time
Brian J. McVeigh – Evidence for the Bicameral Mind in the Old Testament
An interview with Brian J. McVeigh on his recent book The Psychology of the Bible and the evidence for the bicameral mind and the transition to consciousness in the Old Testament. The interview will be followed by Q&A with the event participants. Dr. McVeigh will generously be giving away copies of his latest book The Psychology of the Bible to the first 15 members to RSVP and attend this event.

March 20, 2021, 12pm Pacific Time
Boban Dedovic – The Evolution of Mind Words in the Iliad and the Odyssey
An interview with Boban Dedovic on his research article “‘Minds’ in ‘Homer’: A quantitative psycholinguistic comparison of the Iliad and Odyssey.” The interview will be followed by Q&A with the event participants. Read his article: ‘Minds’ in ‘Homer’: A quantitative psycholinguistic comparison of the Iliad and Odyssey

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It is an interesting fact that the success rates for different psychotherapies are about the same. This is why researchers have searched for “common factors” that facilitate the healing process. The goal, then, should be to discover the common “active ingredients” of all therapies, e.g., the personality of the therapist, the “therapeutic alliance.” Could consciousness itself constitute a common factor that can be cultivated in order to repair troubled minds? Could consciousness underlie the effectiveness of the self-healing mind?

Let’s start with what consciousness actually means by relying on Julian Jaynes’s definition: A type of meta-cognition that is experienced as subjective introspectable self-awareness. He claimed that consciousness — or to be more precise, the “features of conscious interiority” (FOCI) — is not biologically innate but was culturally learned by about 1000 BCE. FOCI are instances of adaptive reframing, abstracting, metaphorizing, and transcending our circumstances: (1) mental space (introspectable stage for manipulating mental images); (2) introception (employing semi-hallucinatory, quasi-perceptions to “see” different perspectives); (3) self observing and self observed (increasing role/perspective-taking); (4) self-narratization (intensifying retrospection/prospection capabilities); (5) excerption (editing mental contents for higher-order conceptualization); (6) consilience (fitting conceptions together more effectively to bolster abstraction); (7) concentration (peripheralizing unrelated mental material); (8) suppression (deleting distracting and distressing thoughts); (9) self-authorization (self-legitimizing one’s decisions and volitional behavior); (10) self-autonomy (bolstering self-direction and self-confidence); (11) self-individuation (highlighting personal strengths); (12) self-reflexivity (cultivating insight, self-objectivity, and self-corrective abilities). …

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January 2021

Dear Members and Friends of the Julian Jaynes Society,

We’re kicking off 2021 with a lot of new Julian Jaynes related material that we hope you will enjoy, including:

  • The softcover edition of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness is now available in French, German, and Spanish;
  • new interviews on Julian Jaynes’s theory;
  • the latest updates to the Julian Jaynes Society Member Area, including new Member Events;
  • the latest from the JJS Blog.

If you haven’t visited the Julian Jaynes Society recently, be sure to check out our redesigned website and Member Area.

Sincerely,

Marcel Kuijsten,
Executive Director

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La Naissance de la Conscience

Der Ursprung des Bewußtseins

El Origen de la Conciencia

Now available in softcover from the Julian Jaynes Society, the French, German, and Spanish editions of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind:

La Naissance de la Conscience dans L’Effondrement de L’Esprit Bicaméral

Der Ursprung des Bewußtseins durch den Zusammenbruch der bikameralen Psyche

El Origen de la Conciencia en la Ruptura de la Mente Bicameral

Available on all Amazon sites worldwide (e-book version also available through Amazon and Google Books) and for order wherever books are sold. Julian Jaynes’s book is now available in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, and Spanish.

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Jaynesian psychology can be distilled down to two major claims. First, until about three millennia ago individual behavior was governed by a different neurocultural arrangement called bicamerality: the right hemisphere generated audiovisual hallucinations interpreted as supernatural visitations (ancestors, chiefs, gods) that governed the left hemisphere (the “mortal” side). But bicamerality was no match for social transformations—expanding demographics, more complex political economic systems, mass migration, and technological innovations such as writing and bronze and ironworking. This brings us to Jaynes’s second claim. What he called consciousness, or subjective introspectable self-awareness, replaced bicamerality. This cognitive upgrade was a cultural invention, not a bioevolutionary development.

Like crowning towers built upon lower tiers and structures, Jaynes’s two claims rest on a number of interlocking theories that deserve attention. This is because unfortunately, reviewers commentators, and critics often fail to see the subtlety of Jaynes’s arguments. Even critiques that are sympathetic to Jaynes’s claims often miss the nuances and richness of his theorizing, so it is worth exploring some of the chambers making up Jaynes’s intellectual edifice. …

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October 2020

Dear Members and Friends,

Just a quick update on the latest Julian Jaynes Society projects and other related news, including:

  • a new Spanish edition of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind,
  • a new book by Brian J. McVeigh,
  • the latest updates to the Julian Jaynes Society Member Area,
  • and a second season of Philip Pullmans’s His Dark Materials.

If you haven’t visited the Julian Jaynes Society recently, be sure to check out our redesigned website and Member Area.

Sincerely,

Marcel Kuijsten,
Executive Director

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El Origen de la Conciencia

For our Spanish speaking friends in Spain, Mexico, Latin America, and around the world, El Origen de la Conciencia en la Ruptura de la Mente Bicameral — the Spanish edition of Jaynes’s book — is now available from the Julian Jaynes Society for Amazon Kindle!

Read Jaynes in your native Spanish, or practice your Spanish while revisiting Julian Jaynes’s theory.

Now available on all Amazon sites worldwide.

Julian Jaynes’s book is also available in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Persian.
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The Psychology of the Bible

The latest book by Brian J. McVeigh on Julian Jaynes’s theory is now available, with both paperback and Kindle editions!

“The Psychology of the Bible explores how the Old Testament provides perspective into the tumultuous transition from an earlier mentality to a new paradigm of interiorized psychology and introspective religiosity that came to characterize the first millennium BCE. By examining the Old Testament’s historical background and theopolitical context … this book interprets biblical passages through a new lens. It analyzes divine voices, visions, and appearances of heavenly messengers … as neurocultural phenomena and explains why they were so common. This book also answers why definitions of God changed so radically, illuminates the divinatory role of idols and other oracular aids … provides a framework for appreciating why ‘wisdom literature’ became so significant, and more.”

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We’ve added a large amount of new content to the Julian Jaynes Society Member Area recently, including new audio of a lecture by Julian Jaynes, new video of a lecture by Julian Jaynes, a new Newspaper Archives section with Jaynes book reviews and lecture announcements, and six new videos from the Julian Jaynes Society Conference on Consciousness and Bicameral Studies:


James Cohn

James Cohn – A Jaynesian Philology: The Bible as a Written Timeline of the Dawn of Consciousness


Arash Daklan

Arash Daklan – How to Make a Conscious Chess-Player Machine: Making Artificial Intelligence out of Julian Jaynes’s Theory


Malcolm David Lowe

Malcolm David Lowe – How Languages Create Mind Space and the ‘Analog I’


Bill Rowe

Bill Rowe – The Other Origin of Consciousness: Infancy and its Relationship to Julian Jaynes’s Theory


Jan Sleutels

Jan Sleutels – The Contingency of Mind: Situating Jaynes in the Changing Landscape of Contemporary Philosophy of Mind


Andrew Stehlik

Andrew Stehlik – Polytheism, Monotheism, and Beyond

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His Dark Materials and the Bicameral Mind

Philip Pullman, who wrote His Dark Materials, drew inspiration from Julian Jaynes, with the characters’ spirit-animals (called dæmons) serving the function of the bicameral guiding voice. In addition, the main character Lyra uses a device called an “alethiometer” that provides an example of divination, which was widespread throughout the ancient world after the breakdown of the bicameral mind.

From his collection of essays Daemon Voices:

“Epic heroes, in fact, seem to be at some distance from themselves. This realisation lies behind the … tantalisingly rich idea of Julian Jaynes, whose book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind puts forward the … suggestion that human beings only became conscious in the modern sense during the past four thousand years; that until then, they heard the promptings of conscience, or temptation, or inspiration, as the voices of gods … with no sense that their own minds were responsible. He instances Achilles in the Iliad, experiencing his own reluctance to strike Agamemnon as the goddess Athena seizing his golden hair and pulling him back.”

Those interested in gaining a better understanding of the bicameral experience of hearing a voice guiding one’s behavior should enjoy this series.

Season 2 of His Dark Materials premieres on November 16, 2020 on HBO in the U.S. and BBC One in the UK.

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