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Any theory of mind, any theory of consciousness, has to also be a theory of dreams. And the theory I am representing very simply says that dreams are …

Open discussion of Julian Jaynes’s “Consciousness and the Voices of the Mind” lecture with members of the audience at Tufts University.

Open discussion of Julian Jaynes’s “Consciousness and the Voices of the Mind” lecture with members of the audience at the University of New Hampshire.

Open discussion of Julian Jaynes’s “Consciousness and the Voices of the Mind” lecture with members of the audience at the Yellow Springs Institute.

Who am I? It’s such a terribly important question to us at various times of our lives, particularly in adolescence. Who and what am I? Do I have a …

Verbal hallucinations were studied in a variety of groups. In a sample of hospitalized schizophrenics and a sample of homeless people on the streets on …

… With this metaphor-generated consciousness, there comes the metaphor of time as a space, or spatialized time, in which human beings ‘see’ themselves as embedded in their own histories.

I propose the hypothesis that the well-known cave paintings and engravings at Lascaux, Altamira, and in about a hundred other caves in southern France …

… It is, however, a very different matter when these interconnections between the two hemispheres are surgically cut, as they are in some patients as a cure for epilepsy.

What I have to present to you this morning is essentially a historical theory that results in a conclusion that consciousness and mind cannot be …