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)

Roy Baumeister
The Why, What, and How of Human Consciousness
Gregory Conrow
An Encounter of Jaynes and Derrida: Consciousness, Divine Voice & Writing
Ralf Funke
The Dangerous Metaphor:
Wittgenstein and Jaynes and the Rise of Neobehaviorism
Martin Kommor
The Role of Self-Reflection in the Development of Psychiatric Residents
Eric Alexander La Freniere
A Bicameral Semiotic: The Linguistic Sign as Image-Word Dyad
Martin Lenhardt
Expansion of Julian Jaynes’ Wahee-Wahoo Hypothesis for Speech/Language Evolution
Malcolm David Lowe
How Languages Create Mind Space and the ‘Analog I’
Ted Remington
Julian Jaynes, Metaphor, and the Rhetorical Structuring of Consciousness
Bill Rowe
The Other Origin of Consciousness:
Infancy and its Relationship to Julian Jaynes’ Theory
Jan Sleutels
The Contingency of Mind:
Situating Jaynes in the Changing Landscape of Contemporary Philosophy of Mind
Gary Williams
Consciousness Behind Closed Doors:
Julian Jaynes and the Refrigerator Light Problem

Hypothesis Two: The Bicameral Mind

Terryl Atkins
Picturing Thinking: Externalization of the Images of Mind in a Darkened Space
Elisabeth Bell Carroll
A Vestige of the Bicameral Mind in the Modern World
Dirk Corstens
The Origins of Voices:
Life History and Voices & Lessons for Recovery
John Hainly
A Missing Piece of the Puzzle:
Julian Jaynes and the Psychology of Religion
Marcel Kuijsten
The Gods of Mesopotamia and the Presentist Fallacy
Clay McNearney
Robert Bellah and Julian Jaynes: An Imagined Conversation
Carole Brooks Platt
The Right Mind of the Poet
[Inspired Poetry and Jaynes’ Bicameral Mind Theory]
Andrew Stehlik
Polytheism, Monotheism and Beyond
[with Application to Julian Jaynes’s Theory]

Hypothesis Three: Dating the Development of Consciousness

Rabbi James Cohn
A Jaynesian Philology:
The Bible as a Written Record of the Dawn of Consciousness