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 MorePrying 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 MoreSensory Pain and Conscious Pain
If this is the case, then certain dramatic predictions follow. If consciousness was learned sometime after 1000 B.C. (as I argue), there should be no …
Read MoreEdwin Garrigues Boring: 1886-1968
Some men dominate an area of their time by growing admiration on themselves. A few by the affection they instill. Others by power over positions and …
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 …
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