Artificial Prophets
The work of Jaynes has a structural part and a qualia part. These correspond to a pure consciousness, or science thereof, and to an applied …
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Directly Related Articles
A listing of many of the articles directly related to Julian Jaynes’s theory. See also the Indirectly Related Articles and Supporting Evidence categories.
An Encounter of Jaynes and Derrida: Consciousness, Divine Voice and Writing
A cursory reading of the secondary literature of Jacques Derrida’s deconstructive writings would seem to suggest that Jaynes’s theory of the …
Read MoreThe Dangerous Metaphor: Wittgenstein and Jaynes and the Rise of Neobehaviorism
In 1984 Julian Jaynes gave a lecture in Kirchberg entitled “Four Hypotheses on the Origin of Mind.” The first of these hypotheses, and …
Read MoreHow Languages Create Mind Space and the ‘Analog I’
The idea that consciousness is built on the back of language is one of the four pillars of Julian Jaynes’s (JJ) ‘preposterous hypothesis’ …
Read MoreA Bicameral Semiotic: The Linguistic Sign as Image-Word Dyad
This read-visual presentation begins with a review of Julian Jaynes’s thesis that self-awareness was made possible by the emergence of …
Read MoreExpansion of Jaynes’ Wahee-Wahoo Hypothesis for Speech/Language Evolution
Jaynes’s paper entitled ‘The Evolution of Language in the Late Pleistocene” presented at the 1976 New York Academy of Sciences meeting …
Read MoreThe Other Origin of Consciousness: Infancy and its Relationship to Julian Jaynes’s Theory
There are two origins of consciousness, one in antiquity and one in infancy. In the last decades of the twentieth century research in …
Read MoreThe Why, What, and How of Human Consciousness
Consciousness is a distinguishing trait of human experience, but does it cause behavior or serve other useful functions? Recent critiques, …
Read MoreThe Role of Self-Reflection (and Reflective Supervision) in the Development of Psychiatric Residents
Psychiatry especially since Freud has emphasized the importance of insight and the practice of self reflection (SR) whether for patients …
Read MoreConsciousness Behind Closed Doors: Julian Jaynes and the Refrigerator Light Problem
One question we might have about consciousness concerns its pervasiveness during waking life. We can divide views of pervasivenessinto two …
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