In the 1970's, I was briefly an Ancient Civilizations major at the University of California, Riverside. That was a major I had custom-built for myself, with University permission, and it was before I had ever heard of The Origin of Consciousness In The Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. One reason I q...

Has Jaynes (or any others dealing with the consciousness-is-based-on-language hypothesis ) written about the Narcissus myth? In the Narcissus myth, Narcissus sees a reflection of himself in a pool of water that he is gazing into and thereby becomes self-aware and even falls in love with himself. The...

My YouTube channel is no longer available, so please don't try to access it. However, I have recently created a Substack account where I publish my work now (as of 2024). The web address associated with the account is markzima@substack.com, but please note that it is markzima without the letter 'd'....

Does anyone have an idea of how the neurological model of the Bicameral Mind mind might be used to explain the religious hallucinatory phenomena associated with ecstatic epilepsy? For examples of these religious hallucinatory phenomena, see my YouTube video "Sick Mystics", http://www.youtu...

I think there is a problem with distributing a single Cartesian theater across the two hemispheres of the brain: if this was how it worked, patients who have had their corpus callosum surgically severed would have their consciousness devastated, no? But this is not the case. By the way, functional n...