Articles by Julian Jaynes

Open discussion of Julian Jaynes’s “Consciousness and the Voices of the Mind” lecture with members of the audience at Tufts University.

Question and answer session with members of the audience following Julian Jaynes’s “Consciousness and the Voices of the Mind” lecture.

Any theory of mind, any theory of consciousness, has to also be a theory of dreams. And the theory I am representing very simply says that dreams are …

Open discussion with members of the audience and all of the panelists following Julian Jaynes’s “Consciousness and the Voices of the Mind” lecture and …

… With this metaphor-generated consciousness, there comes the metaphor of time as a space, or spatialized time, in which human beings ‘see’ themselves as embedded in their own histories.

Discusses auditory verbal hallucinations (VHs) from the viewpoint of case examples, historical evidence, evidence in children, VHs in a nonverbal …

… It is, however, a very different matter when these interconnections between the two hemispheres are surgically cut, as they are in some patients as a cure for epilepsy.

I propose the hypothesis that the well-known cave paintings and engravings at Lascaux, Altamira, and in about a hundred other caves in southern France …

We understand something by finding a metaphor for it with which we are more familiar, and the feeling of familiarity is the feeling of understanding. In …

The problem of consciousness and its corollary the mind body problem have been with us at least since Descartes. An approach to a solution to both may be begun by carefully analyzing consciousness into its component features and modes.