Julian Jaynes Society Conference Lectures
Julian Jaynes Society Conference on Consciousness and Bicameral Studies
Lectures on Julian Jaynes’s theory of the origin of consciousness and the bicameral mind from the Julian Jaynes Society Conference on Consciousness and Bicameral Studies in Charleston, West Virginia. The lectures have been organized by their relationship to each of Julian Jaynes’s four hypotheses.
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Hypothesis One: Consciousness Based On Language (and related themes)
“The Why, What, and How of Human Consciousness”
“An Encounter of Jaynes and Derrida: Consciousness, Divine Voice & Writing”
“The Dangerous Metaphor:
Wittgenstein and Jaynes and the Rise of Neobehaviorism”
“The Role of Self-Reflection in the Development of Psychiatric Residents”
“A Bicameral Semiotic: The Linguistic Sign as Image-Word Dyad”
“Expansion of Julian Jaynes’ Wahee-Wahoo Hypothesis for Speech/Language Evolution”
“How Languages Create Mind Space and the ‘Analog I’ “
“Julian Jaynes, Metaphor, and the Rhetorical Structuring of Consciousness”
“The Other Origin of Consciousness:
Infancy and its Relationship to Julian Jaynes’ Theory”
“The Contingency of Mind:
Situating Jaynes in the Changing Landscape of Contemporary Philosophy of Mind”
“Consciousness Behind Closed Doors:
Julian Jaynes and the Refrigerator Light Problem”
Hypothesis Two: The Bicameral Mind
“Picturing Thinking: Externalization of the Images of Mind in a Darkened Space”
“A Vestige of the Bicameral Mind in the Modern World”
“The Origins of Voices:
Life History and Voices & Lessons for Recovery”
“A Missing Piece of the Puzzle:
Julian Jaynes and the Psychology of Religion”
“The Gods of Mesopotamia and the Presentist Fallacy”
“Robert Bellah and Julian Jaynes: An Imagined Conversation”
“The Right Mind of the Poet”
[Inspired Poetry and Jaynes’ Bicameral Mind Theory]
“Polytheism, Monotheism and Beyond”
[with Application to Julian Jaynes’s Theory]
Hypothesis Three: Dating the Development of Consciousness
“A Jaynesian Philology:
The Bible as a Written Record of the Dawn of Consciousness”