Westworld & The Bicameral Mind

With discussion of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. by Daniel Keane The

*Contains spoilers* Episode 10, the season finale, is titled “The Bicameral Mind” after Julian Jaynes’s theory, which states that prior

by Melissa Dahl Part of the fun of Westworld is the vague feeling that you, much like some kind of hapless host,

*Contains spoilers* Episode 9 opens with Bernard interviewing Maeve, but she quickly assumes control of Bernard, who has lost awareness

*Contains spoilers* Like much of Ford’s speech, the instruction he gives to Bernard in the opening of Episode 8 is

*Contains spoilers* Near the beginning of Episode 7 we see Maeve is no longer responding to the technician’s commands and

*Contains spoilers* In Episode 6, the links to Julian Jaynes’s bicameral mind theory that have already been established continue. Through

*Contains spoilers* Episode 5 opens with Dr. Ford telling a story from his childhood to the retired host he is

*Contains spoilers* The most Jaynesian-related scene in this episode is the opening scene with Bernard again talking with Dolores. Dolores

Interview with Julian Jaynes Society Executive Director Marcel Kuijsten on Julian Jaynes’s bicameral mind theory and Westworld. from Inverse The idea