Did the Bicameral Mind Evolve to Create Modern Human Consciousness?
What is consciousness and how did it emerge in human beings? Great thinkers have pondered these questions for ages …
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News items related to Julian Jaynes’s theory of the origin of consciousness and the bicameral mind.
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Watch Recent Interviews on Julian Jaynes’s Theory
Watch these recent interviews on Julian Jaynes’s theory. Don’t forget to “like” and comment: Julian Jaynes’s Theory of the Origin
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September/October Member Area Updates
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, …
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His Dark Materials & The Bicameral Mind
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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A New Album Influenced by Julian Jaynes’s Bicameral Mind Theory
Three years on since the release of ‘A Fever Dream’, Everything Everything have confirmed that their fifth album will be dropping on 21st
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The Natural Origin of the Supernatural
How the Theory of Mind shaped our relationships with Nature and each other by Ted Wade …. We know that
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Boas’s Constructors: The Project to Remove the Stranglehold on ‘Culture’
By John Kendall Hawkins “The struggle of maturity is to recover the seriousness of a child at play.” – Friedrich
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Julian Jaynes’s 100th Birthday
Today marks Julian Jaynes’s 100th birthday! In celebration, we’ve launched the completely redesigned Julian Jaynes Society website! The new site
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The Dawn of Self-Consciousness
A sudden moment of self-awareness in childhood propels people on a quest to explore life’s mysteries by John Horgan At the beginning
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