Author: Books on Consciousness Contributor
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Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind: Interviews with Leading Thinkers on Julian Jaynes’s Theory
ORDER YOUR COPY! How old is consciousness? What is the relationship of consciousness and language? What is the origin of god beliefs and religion? Why do people hear voices that command their behavior? These are just a few of the fascinating questions posed by Princeton University psychologist Julian Jaynes’s influential and controversial theory and discussed…
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Top Books on Consciousness
Learn about the nature of the mind and the origin of consciousness with these recommended books on consciousness:
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Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind: The Theories of Julian Jaynes
Does consciousness inevitably arise in any sufficiently complex brain? Although widely accepted, this view inherited from Darwin’s theory of evolution is supported by surprisingly little evidence. Offering an alternate view of the history of the human mind, Julian Jaynes’s ideas challenge our preconceptions of not only the origin of the modern mind, but the origin…
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Reflections on the Dawn of Consciousness: Julian Jaynes’s Bicameral Mind Theory Revisited
Reflections on the Dawn of Consciousness
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The Minds of the Bible: Speculations on the Cultural Evolution of Human Consciousness
The Minds of the Bible