Paper: "The Bicameral Expert"
Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2021 5:27 am
Hello!
I don't know if this is precisely the right forum for this, but I'm an independent (read: amateur) scholar who recently completed a paper comparing aspects of Julian Jaynes' Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind and Jordan B. Peterson's Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief.
Specifically, I was struck by how JJ and JBP both founded their theories on the relationship between the left and right hemispheres of the brain (to some extent), as well as by their use of ancient texts like the Iliad (JJ) and the Enuma Elish (JBP) to draw conclusions about the human mind.
One of my primary interests is expertise development, and the consilience between that literature and the ideas in JJ's and JBP's books was hard to ignore. After a lot of thinking and puzzling, I've managed to write something that I think is fairly coherent. I have no illusions about ever being accepted in the academic mainstream, so I've written the paper in a style that laypeople will be able to follow - it includes some context for the paper and background information on Jaynes and Peterson.
The paper is available here.
Thanks! Would love to hear your thoughts.
-YS
I don't know if this is precisely the right forum for this, but I'm an independent (read: amateur) scholar who recently completed a paper comparing aspects of Julian Jaynes' Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind and Jordan B. Peterson's Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief.
Specifically, I was struck by how JJ and JBP both founded their theories on the relationship between the left and right hemispheres of the brain (to some extent), as well as by their use of ancient texts like the Iliad (JJ) and the Enuma Elish (JBP) to draw conclusions about the human mind.
One of my primary interests is expertise development, and the consilience between that literature and the ideas in JJ's and JBP's books was hard to ignore. After a lot of thinking and puzzling, I've managed to write something that I think is fairly coherent. I have no illusions about ever being accepted in the academic mainstream, so I've written the paper in a style that laypeople will be able to follow - it includes some context for the paper and background information on Jaynes and Peterson.
The paper is available here.
Thanks! Would love to hear your thoughts.
-YS