Stranger in A Strange Land (The Bicameral Mind in Africa)
The title of my lecture is taken from Robert Heinlein’s award-winning novel (Heinlein, 1965). The principal character is a human being called Smith who, …
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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.
Prying Open the Barrel of Snakes (Interview with Julian Jaynes)
Interview with Julian Jaynes by Timothy J. Stafford, from Timothy J. Stafford, “Prying Open the Barrell of Snakes: Historical Conceptions of Human …
Read MoreHumility as a Profession: A Memorial to Julian Jaynes
It has now been ten years since the death of the professor who influenced me in so many ways. I can remember him sitting before me, savoring each sip of …
Read MoreLanguage and Consciousness: Jaynes’s ‘Preposterous Idea’ Reconsidered
Jaynes’s consciousness has definitive features that create an “analog world” with its own space, agents and objects, story-telling ability, and …
Read MoreOn Listening to Voices
Imagine what it would be like for a conscious mind to be trapped inside an entity so twisted and defective that it could not convey the simplest thought …
Read MoreRemembrance of Things (Far) Past
When we remember, we are allowed into an enchanted other world where the past is magically present and time becomes like space. We are in an enormous …
Read MoreThe Consequences of Consciousness: Harvard University Discussion
Discussion of Julian Jaynes’s lecture the “Consequences of Consciousness” at Harvard University.
Read MoreThe Consequences of Consciousness: Emory University Discussion
Discussion of Julian Jaynes’s lecture the “Consequences of Consciousness” at Emory University.
Read MoreJulian Jaynes: 1920-1997
Julian Jaynes was born in West Newton, Massachusetts, on February 27, 1990. After work at both Harvard and McGill Universities, he received his …
Read MoreLibrary of Science Interview with Julian Jaynes
In 1977, then a lecturer at Princeton University, shocked the scientific world with a revolutionary theory about the origin of consciousness. …
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