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Original Title:	The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
ISBN:	0618057072 (ISBN13: 9780618057078)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	National Book Award Finalist for Contemporary Thought (1978)

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Julian Jaynes

Paperback | Pages: 491 pages

Rating: 4.25 | 4084 Users | 496 Reviews

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Title	:	The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Author	:	Julian Jaynes
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Mariner Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 491 pages
Published	:	August 15th 2000 by Mariner Books (first published 1976)
Categories	:	Psychology. Philosophy. Nonfiction. Science. History

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At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion -- and indeed our future.

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This book is very stimulating.That is not to say it is correct or incorrect as a theory of consciousness, but there are enough examples and provocative ideas to make me *think* it might be right. And that's the whole problem. I can't immediately discount it. It keeps creeping back into my consciousness.Even when reading it with deep suspicions, the very meme of this core idea breaks down the wall between my right and left hemispheres and I no longer have an external agent telling me what I must

Amazing--Reading The Iliad and the Old Testament of the Bible, I've always wondered about one distinctive feature they both share: an utter lack of interiority, of introspection by the characters. I brushed it aside as the literary style of the times in which they were composed (orally and then textually), but Julian Jaynes has quite a different take: the characterslike the rest of their contemporarieswere not conscious at all.This claim alone was enough reason to pick this book up. His thesis

I am giving Julian Jaynes The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (The Origin) four stars not because Ive become a devoted follower of his theory I havent but because it reflects exactly how I feel about it I really liked it. Jaynes writes in such a commanding manner that youre helplessly swept along to the end (at which point, you can finally catch your breath and begin to assess whats just happened). Once hes determined the correctness of his hypothesis to his own

If ever an author needed a friend to say, "That's a terrible title, don't use it," this is it. Jaynes' book should have been called something like "We Were All Schizophrenics."This is an academic look at where consciousness comes from and how consciousness is different from what came before--what Jaynes terms the bicameral mind. The book explores archaeological as well as literary evidence for what brains worked like a long time ago, and my simple sum up is that the language center of our brains

This was one of the most stimulating and important books I've ever encountered by a psychologist. Although flawed in some important respects, it is profoundly provocative, suggesting areas for further speculation and research not only in psychology, but also in the cultural anthropology of religions.The primary flaw of Jayne's work is his literary evidence for the claim that humans didn't develop reflective consciousness until ca. 1000 BCE. He relies too much on the earlier texts of the Iliad



His theory is really way out there. I prefer to think that Homer was just made up and not real as all religious books are. Will Durant's "Life of Greece, Story of Civilization, Vol II" irritated me to no end because the first 8 hours or so assumed Homer was based directly on real history. Now there is some truth in Homer, but I figure one can say there is some truth in the bible, but most of it is not historical. Hollywood movies are just as fake and I won't develop a theory based on reality