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Fact Checking the Scott Alexander's Discussion of Julian Jaynes's Theory on Slate Star Codex - Part 2

Fact Checking Scott Alexander’s Discussion of Julian Jaynes’s Theory on “Slate Star Codex” – Part 2

September 5, 2023 Marcel Kuijsten

In June 2020, the psychiatrist and blogger Scott Alexander wrote a review of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind for his popular “Star Slate Codex” blog. . His review contains a number of misconceptions and errors, and I will attempt to clear those up here.

Fact Checking the Scott Alexander's Discussion of Julian Jaynes's Theory on Slate Star Codex - Part 1

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Fact Checking Scott Alexander’s Discussion of Julian Jaynes’s Theory on “Slate Star Codex” – Part 1

September 4, 2023 Brian J. McVeigh

Scott Alexander begins his review of Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness with an odd opening. He describes it as “brilliant” and writes that it only has “two minor flaws”:

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Fact Checking Erik Hoel’s “The World behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science”

August 6, 2023 Brian J. McVeigh

In the second chapter of “The World behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science,” Erik Hoel briefly treats the historical …

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