Westworld & The Bicameral Mind

The human being, the philosopher Martin Heidegger claimed, is the only being “whose being is an issue for it.” …

Episode 10, the season finale, is titled “The Bicameral Mind” after Julian Jaynes’s theory, which states that prior to the development of introspective consciousness, our brain hemispheres operated more independently than they do today, with the right hemisphere acting as the “god-side” and the left acting as the “man-side,” and neither being conscious.

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