In this issue:

Editor’s Corner

Announcements:
The 2008 Julian Jaynes Conference on Consciousness;
Origins: How We Became Human — An educational board game about the beginnings of humanity

Book Review:
Reflections on the Dawn of Consciousness

Essays:
“The Origin of Rhetoric in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind” by Ted Remington, Ph.D.,
“Chinese Pictograms and the Bicameral Mind” by Masanori Ishimori, Ph.D. and Takashi X. Fujisawa, Ph.D.

In this issue:

“Humility as a Profession: A Memorial to Julian Jaynes” by Brian J. McVeigh, Ph.D.

Announcements:
Jaynes Session at the Toward a Science of Consciousness Conference; The 2008 Julian Jaynes Conference on Consciousness

Book Review:
Muses, Madmen, and Prophets: Rethinking the History, Science, and Meaning of Auditory Hallucination

Essays:
“The Evolution of Self-Talk” by Dr. Robert Pos, “Julian Jaynes’s Bicameral Mind Theory as a Metaphor for Alcoholism” by Jeff Sandoz, Ph.D., and
“Jaynes’s Notion of Consciousness as Self-Referential” by Mike Finch, Ph.D.

In this issue:

“New Evidence for Jaynes’s Neurological Model: A Research Update” by Marcel Kuijsten   (with commentary on Cavanna, Trimble, Federico & Monaco [2007] and Asaad & Shapiro [1987])

Book Review:
Consciousness, Self-Consciousness, and the Science of Being Human

Abstracts from the UPEI Julian Jaynes Conference on Consciousness

Essay:
“Reflections on the Julian Jaynes Conference on Consciousness” by Maura Moore