The 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, …
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JJS Publications
A complete listing of articles published in Julian Jaynes Society books.
The 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 …
Read MoreThe Study of the History of Psychology
Why study the history of psychology? To most historians of science the question is not very interesting. The answer is quite obvious: the historical …
Read MoreDragons of the Shang Dynasty: The Hidden Faces
Also consistent with other bicameral kingdoms is the slow transition of the Shang away from the bicameral mentality, until in its last phase at Anyang, …
Read MoreHumility as a Profession: A Memorial to Julian Jaynes
It has now been ten years since the death of the professor who influenced me in so many ways. I can remember him sitting before me, savoring each sip of …
Read MoreThe Meaning of King Tut: A Review of the Tutankhamun Exhibition from the Perspective of the Bicameral Theory
These three figures show Tutankhamun in the middle with his ka in tow. Note that the ka is wearing the Osirian beard – only the king’s ka was an aspect …
Read MoreIn A Manner of Speaking: Commentary on Cognition and Consciousness in Non-Human Species
If we compare the vocabulary between early and late Greek texts over the first millennium B.C., or between early and late Hebrew texts over the same …
Read MoreThe Origin of Consciousness
In the course of trying to understand the evolution of the mind, I had for a long time been developing various notes and evidence about a new theory of …
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 …
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