Sensory Pain and Conscious Pain
If this is the case, then certain dramatic predictions follow. If consciousness was learned sometime after 1000 B.C. (as I argue), there should be no …
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Articles by Julian Jaynes
Articles written by Julian Jaynes.
The Diachronicity of Consciousness
What I wish to present in this paper is essentially a historical theory that results in a conclusion that consciousness cannot be understood apart …
Read MoreThe Study of the History of Psychology
Why study the history of psychology? To most historians of science the question is not very interesting. The answer is quite obvious: the historical …
Read MoreThe Routes of Science
I write this in scorn of the unity of science. My impulse is a disturbed feeling that, as science folds back on itself and comes to be scientifically …
Read MoreThe Problem of Animate Motion in the Seventeenth Century
Motion is now so much the domain of physics that it is difficult for us to appreciate that this was not always so. Before the seventeenth century, …
Read MoreThe Evolution of Language in the Late Pleistocene
In this paper I shall first address the question of when language evolved, basing my answer on three assumptions. I shall then attempt the question of …
Read MoreIn the Shadow of the Enlightenment II: Reimarus and His Theory of Drives
Continues a discussion of Reimarus and The Enlightenment. Reimarus’s Triebe der Tiere (Drives of Animals) (1760), an expansion of his Principal Truths …
Read MoreThe Ghost of a Flea: Visions of William Blake
Did William Blake really see visions? And were these the origins of some of his drawings and paintings with their anatomical style, allegorical …
Read MoreThe Meaning of King Tut: A Review of the Tutankhamun Exhibition from the Perspective of the Bicameral Theory
These three figures show Tutankhamun in the middle with his ka in tow. Note that the ka is wearing the Osirian beard – only the king’s ka was an aspect …
Read MoreIn A Manner of Speaking: Commentary on Cognition and Consciousness in Non-Human Species
If we compare the vocabulary between early and late Greek texts over the first millennium B.C., or between early and late Hebrew texts over the same …
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