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Julian Jaynes

Description: Author of "Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind"
File Code: jaynes   Class: psi
Residence: Princeton, NJ US
Deceased (1997)

Psychic Topic: Consciousness
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• Notes on Julian Jaynes - By Cosma Rohilla Shalizi <11/8/97 #1>
  "The rest of the book is devoted to the rather bizarre theory that, prior to about 1000 B.C., consciousness did not exist, but rather everyone went around in a ``bicameral" condition, hallucinating the voices of the gods and their parents out of one of their cerebral hemispheres, which gave orders to the other."
• Julian Jaynes: Too Visionary for College Professors <12/8/97 #2>
• Julian Jaynes Dead at 77 - Press release - Published: 11/25/98 - Source: Princeton University <2/21/98 #3>
  "After making significant contributions to the study of animal behavior and ethology, he turned his attention to the riddle of human consciousness and became best known for his provocative book, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, a nominee for the National Book Award in 1978."
  • Large photo on Jaynes (181k) <2/21/98 #3.1>
• *The Julian Jaynes Society - The primary goal of the Julian Jaynes Society is to foster discussion and a better understanding of the life, work, and theories of Julian Jaynes. <6/25/98 #5>
• Catasrophism - This page puts Jaynes into a larger context and provides a few more related links. - Supportive <5/21 #6>

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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes - $18.00 Neuropsychological Bases of God Beliefs by Micheal Persinger - $59.95

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Jaynes on oracles As a scholar interested in Jaynes’s theories I would be very grateful if someone could give me a more complete description of the following study: D. C. Stove«The Oracles and their cessation: A tribute to Julian Jaynes», Encounter April 1989, pp. 30-38. (What volume? number? publishing house, etc. With thanks. -- Claude Savary (claude_savary @ uqtr.uquebec.ca ) 6/16/99 (#5)

Jaynes is/was a visionary Just like to add my two cents. I used Jaynes' theory of how consciousness is a constant interplay of ever changing metaphor, much like figurative language in poetry. I was inspired by such a notion--that identity/self consciousness is like a poem, unstable, connotative, open to creation and recreation--and tried to use it to explain British Romantcism, Wordsworth's Intimations Ode especially. I just want to add that Jaynes was a great inspiration to my thought, and it's wonderful to see a web site for him. He was an original thinker, and not afraid to make huge interdisciplinary connections. -- pnolan (pnolan@coryphaeus.com ) 7/19/98 (#4)

Michael Persinger Those interested in current research along the lines of Jaynes' work should look up Michael Persinger. His book "A Neuropsychological Basis for God Beliefs" sheds a lot of technical light on Jaynes' theory. It does not indicate that he is at all aware of Jaynes' work, however. -- root mugwort 6/2/98 (#3)

Since you noted on your webpage you were looking for a home page for Julian Jaynes, I assume you have not heard that he died. I went to the Princeton Home Page to look him up, and there was information stating that he died on Nov. 21 of a stroke. If you want more info, go to Princeton.edu and do a search on his name. -- Carol Stwalley (stwalleyc@aol.com ) 2/21/98 (#2)

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