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Jaynes notes that in Book I, Aristotle discussed and rejected each of the previous attempts to define psyche, including those by Democritus, Anaxagoras, Plato, and Heraclitus

It is likely that readers of this essay unfamiliar with Jaynes will have mentally rebelled against some of the conclusions drawn in Part One, if for no …

Discusses Julian Jaynes’s hypothesis that the subjective consciousness developed as late as the first millennium B.C.; before then, men and women were …

After a corpse had decayed, a bicameral individual might still have heard voices from a shi ‘corpse; effigy’ (perhaps a muzhu ‘wooden spirit tablet’). …

The 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 …