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David Bowie in 1973
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David Bowe Included Julian Jaynes’s “The Origin of Consciousness” in His List of Must Read Books

January 11, 2016 Contributor

by Liz Bury David Bowie’s Top 100 Must-Read Books As a new version of the exhibition David Bowie Is opens this week

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Robert J. Sawyer
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Science Fiction Writer Robert J. Sawyer Discusses Julian Jaynes

September 29, 2015 Contributor

The Reading Life With Sybil Morial, Michael Allen Zell And Robert J. Sawyer by Susan Larson This week on The

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Sebastian Faulkes
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Julian Jaynes’ Theory Served as Inspiration for Sebastian Faulks’ Novel “Human Traces”

August 27, 2015 Contributor

by David Sexton For lots of journalists, Sebastian Faulks is the one that got away. In 1991, then in his

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Billy Collins
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Poet Laureate Billy Collins recommends Julian Jaynes’s “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”

December 14, 2014 Contributor

Billy Collins’ 6 Favorite Books… The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes (Mariner, $18).

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What Book Changed Your Mind
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Stanford Professor T.M. Luhrmann Recommends Julian Jaynes’s “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind”

November 7, 2014 Contributor

The Chronicle Review asked 12 scholars what nonfiction book published in the last 30 years has most changed their minds—not merely

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Julian Jaynes's Theory

Julian Jaynes Answers 100 Questions about the Theory

December 6, 2012 Marcel Kuijsten

After reading Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness, most people have additional unanswered questions about Jaynes’s theory. To this end, we recently

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