An unabridged audio version The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind is now available:

http://www.audible.com/pd/Nonfiction/Th ... B00VL15QXS

You're covering a lot of different topics... just to touch on your main idea, I think the comparison of oracles with modern politicians may be a bit of stretch, but I see what you are getting at. Politically, I think we've seen many of these issues before, and in my view the pendulum kind of swings ...

So for purposes of clarification, that is definitely Jaynes's position. He did not appeal to any supernatural or mystical explanations for the voices.

Thanks for the recommendation... it sounds interesting, I'll check it out!

You might also enjoy Automata (2014), with Antonio Banderas, for some of the Jaynesian implications.

Interesting! I was not aware of this one.

I was aware of these, however the Stamps book was not searchable when I first saw that it contained a reference to Jaynes (and I don't own a copy), so I didn't know the discussion of Jaynes was this extensive. I'm looking at it on Google Books now and it looks like he provides a fairly extensive ove...

Stanford Professor T.M. Luhrmann cites Julian Jaynes's book as having been the most influential to her in this Chronicle of Higher Education article: What Book Changed Your Mind?

Pages from Julian Jaynes's book were incorporated by the South Korean artist Lee Bul in her "Via Negativa II," which explores self awareness. The video posted here shows the exhibit, and the pages of Jaynes's book at 2:15: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_x9_kYXcFg Lee Bul is recognized a...

Thanks for sharing this!

Hello Kenneth, This topic has come up before (but may have since been pruned). My thoughts are that the transition from bicamerality to consciousness took place at very different times in different places around the world, so it's unlikely to have been a major contributing factor. We have to remembe...

The short answer unfortunately is no. I do have some detailed ideas for a Jaynesian-inspired intervention for auditory hallucinations but currently don't have the funding to develop it. To answer your other questions: 1. Based on everything I've read, I can say that most likely what is happening is ...

Yes, I would agree that they do not lack consciousness. However, like nearly all tribes I've read about, they do seem to exhibit many vestiges of bicameralism. What is sorely needed is the study of other even more recently contacted groups by someone with an understanding of/interest in Jaynes's the...

Thank you for sharing this interesting article. I've reposted it to the Julian Jaynes Society Facebook page. Professor Luhrmann has mentioned Jaynes is some of her articles and is interested in the theory. She was invited to speak at the 2013 conference but unfortunately she had a scheduling conflict.

Yes thank you for posting this, as well as your thoughtful comments on the blog. Thanks also to the person who posted the additional comments. This type of activity is very helpful and greatly appreciated. Clearly up these types of misconceptions and distortions of the theory whenever they occur is ...

Thanks for sharing this interesting article Andrew. Those interested in this debate should also read this related thread:

http://www.julianjaynes.org/forum3/view ... f=13&t=511