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If Julian Jaynes had done nothing but write Chapter 2 of Book I of “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind,” rhetoricians …

The central question of the modern poet vis-a-vis poetry is summed up by Frost in “The Oven Bird”: “what to make of a diminished thing.” Stripped of his …

Even if Kant is right in his analysis of consciousness, this does not necessarily invalidate Jaynes’s claims about the mental life of earlier cultures…

Within a period of forty or fifty years “at the end of the thirteenth and beginning of the twelfth century almost every significant city or palace in the …

At the open-air Natufian site of Eynan, just north of the sea of Galilee, at around 9000 B.C.E., there is a burial tradition like nothing ever seen …

There is another kind of life, one not much lived anymore: a life of privacy and contemplation, a life sustained behind a single purpose pursued through decades.

Aristotle defined man as the living being who has “logos.” This definition has become canonical in the statement that man is the “animal rational,” a …

Few want to confront the pink elephants that crowd the classrooms, offices, and laboratories of psychology departments. Too many careers might be …

A self is an internalized conceptualization of agency, imported by socialization processes through the use of metaphoric mind-words “into” our heads. …