Big Heads in Old Chinese
The historical linguistics of the big head words fit in well with the bicameral hypothesis. During the Shang dynasty (ca. 1500 – 1050 B.C., when Jaynes…
Read MoreA listing of many of the articles directly related to Julian Jaynes’s theory. See also the Indirectly Related Articles and Supporting Evidence categories.
The historical linguistics of the big head words fit in well with the bicameral hypothesis. During the Shang dynasty (ca. 1500 – 1050 B.C., when Jaynes…
Read MoreThe relevance of Julian Jaynes’s theory of the bicameral mind to the history of religion in Tibet may not be immediately apparent to either readers of …
Read MoreThe unusual practice of personating dead ancestors is a several thousand year old puzzle that has never been fully solved. No one has ever successfully …
Read MoreJulian Jaynes, a Princeton University psychologist who died recently at the age of 77, is famous, or notorious, depending on your point of view, for one…
Read MoreConsciousness is typically construed as being explainable purely in terms of either private, raw feels or higher-order, reflective representations…
Read MoreThis article is concerned with what I call the consciousness of John’s Gospel. This term needs to be clarified: I am concerned not with the psychological …
Read MoreExplores why general semantics theorists for over 70 years generally have overlooked the human behaviors that give rise to the sharpest and most violent …
Read MoreIn 1976 Julian Jaynes published his controversial book “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind,” introducing the hypothesis …
Read MoreAt every induction the hypnotist is more amazed than the hypnotized about how easy and how rapid it is to induce modified consciousness that special …
Read MoreWhy does Chinese käo < *k'ôg 'dead father; think' violate the linguistic universal of avoiding 'die; death' words? The postulated answer is that *kôg …
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