Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind (Book Review)
Christian Y. Dupont, Associate University Librarian for Collections and Burns Librarian, Boston College,
and author of Phenomenology in French Philosophy: Early Encounters, August 2022.
Nearly fifty years on, it is time for a new generation of neuroscientists, evolutionary biologists, psychologists, and deep thinkers at the heart of every discipline to rediscover Julian Jaynes’s tantalizing hypotheses concerning the origin and nature of human consciousness. This collection of interviews with Jaynes’s foremost students and others who have been powerfully influenced by his daring insights will enable contemporary readers to understand why Jaynes’s style of inquiry remains as captivating and compelling as ever — and as provocative and controversial. Reader: take the plunge, and join the conversation!