The God-Shaped Hole in Your Mind
Julian Jaynes’s Groundbreaking Ideas Explained in Just 16 Minutes Today, we are diving headfirst into one of the most profound,
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Julian Jaynes Society featured blog posts on consciousness and bicameral mentality.
Consciousness and Bicameral Mentality: A Deep Dive Discussion Exploring Julian Jaynes’s Theory
Welcome back to the Deep Dive, where we plunge into fascinating source material to unearth the most compelling insights, just for you. Glad to be diving in. Today we’re tackling something truly monumental. I mean, a theory that really challenges almost everything we thought we knew about the human mind and its history. Absolutely. It’s a big one. We’re embarking on an extensive deep dive into Julian Jaynes’ groundbreaking work, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.
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Now Available: Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind
Now available: Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind: Interviews with Leading Thinkers on Julian Jaynes’s …
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Now Available: The Revised Edition of Reflections on the Dawn of Consciousness
Now available: The revised second edition of Reflections on the Dawn of Consciousness: Julian Jaynes’s Bicameral Mind Theory Revisited …
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Fact Checking Scott Alexander’s Discussion of Julian Jaynes’s Theory on “Slate Star Codex” – Part 2
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.
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Fact Checking Erik Hoel’s “The World behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science”
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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Test Your Knowledge of Jaynes’s Theory!
Test your knowledge of Julian Jaynes’s theory by taking these three new quizzes: Basic Knowledge, Intermediate Concepts, and Advanced Concepts.
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Buddhism and Bicamerality
In The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Julian Jaynes has painted a vivid picture of the collapse of archaic …
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