At this year's Wittgenstein Symposium (http://www.alws.at/index.php/symposium/) I am going to talk about "The Origin of Consciousness and the Breakdown of Private Language." As you probably know Jaynes gave a lecture there 30 years ago. My lecture will be about, as you may have guessed, Ja...

You are saying there must be some physiological evolution. Jaynes sometimes seems to be saying there might have been a sort of physiological change, but the straight answer should be: No. It is all just culture. If you were transmitted back into ancient Egypt as a small child you would have become b...

Just finished reading the book. It is nice to have some other work of Jaynes available now presented in a beautiful book. And reading it I felt that it is really a shame that he never delivered the second promised book on the Consequences. The book is quite redundant, especially the second section w...

On the About Julian Jaynes page it says he gave a lecture at the Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchburg. It is Kirchberg. I was there. It was a wonderful lecture. It is a pity that his work has not had a deeper impact. I still believe he was basically right (and certainly his prose was brilliant). I di...