The Development of Consciousness in Children
Summary: Bill Rowe interviewed by Brendan Leahy on the development of consciousness in children and how this relates to Julian Jaynes’s theory. …
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JJS Publications
A complete listing of articles published in Julian Jaynes Society books.
Metaphor and the Rhetorical Structuring of Consciousness
Summary: Ted Remington interviewed by Brendan Leahy on the role of metaphor in consciousness and how this relates to Julian Jaynes’s theory.
Read MoreJulian Jaynes and the Features of Consciousness
Summary: Brian J. McVeigh interviewed by Brendan Leahy on the first hypothesis of Julian Jaynes’s theory. …
Read MoreConsciousness and Language
Summary: Marcel Kuijsten interviewed by Brendan Leahy on the first hypothesis of Julian Jaynes’s theory. Excerpt: Brendan Leahy: Can you …
Read MoreJulian Jaynes, the Bicameral Mind, and the Origin of Consciousness
Summary: Marcel Kuijsten interviewed by Henrik Palmgren on Julian Jaynes’s theory. …
Read MoreJulian Jaynes’s Four Hypotheses on the Origin of Mind
The history of ideas teaches us that new, paradigm-shifting theories typically face an uphill battle. Often they are initially rejected, then only gradually appreciated, with many details misunderstood. …
Read MoreThe Routes of Science
I write this in scorn of the unity of science. My impulse is a disturbed feeling that, as science folds back on itself and comes to be scientifically …
Read MoreThe Evolution of Language in the Late Pleistocene
In this paper I shall first address the question of when language evolved, basing my answer on three assumptions. I shall then attempt the question of …
Read MoreThe Problem of Animate Motion in the Seventeenth Century
Motion is now so much the domain of physics that it is difficult for us to appreciate that this was not always so. Before the seventeenth century, …
Read MoreThe Ghost of a Flea: Visions of William Blake
Did William Blake really see visions? And were these the origins of some of his drawings and paintings with their anatomical style, allegorical …
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