Julian Jaynes Society Spring 2023 Newsletter

Memorial Day Sale!

Now through Monday, May 29th, enjoy 20% off our latest book, Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind when you order from the JJS website:

Including in-depth interviews with Stanford anthropology professor Tanya Luhrmann, UC Berkeley psychology professor emeritus John Kihlstrom, and many others, this book answers the most common questions people have about Jaynes’s theory and extends the theory into many new areas.

(If you live outside of the U.S., your best option is still to purchase the book through your country’s Amazon website or via special order from your favorite bookstore.)

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Consciousness Is More “Nurture” than “Nature”:
But Like a Massive Planet, the Gravitational Pull of the Word “Consciousness” Drags our Thinking in the Wrong Direction, Warping Scientific Analysis
by Brian J. McVeigh

“The nature-versus-nurture debate has framed discussions about the origins of mind for centuries: Is it innate or acquired? Has it biologically evolved or is it better understood as the product of historical development? To what degree is it learned? To be more specific, what about consciousness, understood here as one aspect of mind? …” Read more

Professor Roy Baumeister
The Why, What, and How of Human Consciousness

Marcel Kuijsten
The Gods of Mesopotamia and the Presentist Fallacy

Plus Eric Alexander La Freniere, Malcolm David Lowe, and more!

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