Quiz 2: Jaynes’s Theory – Intermediate Concepts Test your knowledge of Julian Jaynes’s theory by taking the intermediate concepts quiz below! /10 210 Quiz 2: Intermediate Concepts Test you knowledge of intermediate concepts on Julian Jaynes's theory. This quiz has 10 questions based on both Jaynes's book and JJS publications. 1 / 10 Which civilization does Jaynes mention but does not rely on significantly to make his arguments? Egypt Ancient Israel India Mesopotamia Jaynes mentions India on pages of 162, 178, 313, and 362 of The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, saying that "The evidence in the Indus civilizations is more fragmentary because of the successive coverings of alluvium, the rotting away of all their writings on papyrus, and the incompleteness of archaeological investigations." 2 / 10 Consciousness according to Jaynes is located in the left hemisphere is an operator, rather than a thing or repository (like mathematics) lacks any relation to physical reality is a basic property of the universe See Book 1, Chapter 2, "Consciousness," in Julian Jaynes's The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, specifically page 55. See further discussion in The Julian Jaynes Collection. 3 / 10 Which of the following is NOT one of Jaynes's features of consciousness? the analog 'I' spatialization attention the metaphor 'me' See Book 1, Chapter 2, "Consciousness," in Julian Jaynes's The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, and further discussion in Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind and The Julian Jaynes Collection. 4 / 10 Jaynes argues that auditory verbal hallucinations are rooted in a type of verbal imagery were very rare in ancient history are a side effect of the evolution of language evolved from primate attempts at communication See Book 1, Chapter 4, "The Bicameral Mind," in The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. See also Chapters 7 and 21 in Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind. 5 / 10 According to Jaynes, hypnosis occurs when through trance induction, the features of consciousness are diminished the brain's language areas temporarily shut down, thereby suspending the ego through trance induction, the left hemisphere becomes dominant a form of deep sleep is induced See Book 1, Chapter 1, "Hypnosis," in Julian Jaynes's The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. See also Chapters 13, 14, and 15 in Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind. 6 / 10 Jaynes describes how dreams can be used to diagnose illnesses are often prophetic in nature changed from bicameral to conscious in ancient history can be used to discover repressed feelings See "The Dream of Agamemnon" in The Julian Jaynes Collection, "The Interpretation of Dreams, The Origin of Consciousness, and the Birth of Tragedy," in Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind, and "Consciousness, Cave Art, and Dreams" in Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind. 7 / 10 Concerning the future of consciousness, Jaynes argued that it would weaken over time due to social complexity avoided speculating on this topic contended that it would probably remain unchanged believed that a reversion to bicameral mentality was inevitable See "The Lost Voices of the Gods" and "The Consequences of Consciousness: Emory University Discussion" in The Julian Jaynes Collection. 8 / 10 Jaynes argues that the Iliad contains many examples of introspection was composed by a man named Homer is an example of the use of gods as a literary device was part of an oral tradition and sung for generations by Greek bards before being written down See Book 1, Chapter 3 "The Mind of the Iliad" and Book 2, Chapter 5, "The Intellectual Consciousness of Greece," in Julian Jaynes's The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind and "The Evolution of Mental Language in the Iliad and the Odyssey," in Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind. 9 / 10 Jaynes describes how cave art has been incorrectly dated was a product of bicameral mentality signifies the beginnings of consciousness likely was based on eidetic imagery and did not require consciousness See "Paleolithic Cave Paintings as Eidetic Images," in The Julian Jaynes Collection and "Consciousness, Cave Art, and Dreams," in Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind. 10 / 10 Jaynes's neurological model for bicameral mentality suggests that, in right-handed people, auditory hallucinations originate in the cerebellum and travel to the prefrontal cortex reduced levels of dopamine cause auditory hallucinations the transition to consciousness involved changes to the corpus callosum auditory hallucinations originate in language areas of the right hemisphere and are "heard" by the language areas of the left hemisphere For more on Jaynes's neurological model, see Book 1, Chapter 5, "The Double Brain" in The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. 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