Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind: The Theories of Julian Jaynes

Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind: The Theories of Julian Jaynes
Marcel Kuijsten (ed.) (Julian Jaynes Society)
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 of gods and religion, the nature of mental illness, and the future potential of consciousness. The tremendous explanatory power of Jaynes’s ideas force us to reevaluate much of what we thought we knew about human history.

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Contents

Introduction by Marcel Kuijsten

  1. Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind: The Theories of Julian Jaynes, Charles
    Hampden-Turner
  2. Reflections on Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the
    Bicameral Mind, James E. Morriss
  3. Elephants in the Psychology Department: Overcoming Intellectual Barriers to
    Understanding Julian Jaynes’s Theory, Brian J. McVeigh
  4. Voices Become Gods, Bill Rowe
  5. The Ancient Dark Age, Bill Rowe
  6. The Interpretation of Dreams, The Origin of Consciousness, and the Birth of
    Tragedy, Robert Atwan
  7. Evolution and Inspiration, Judith Weissman
  8. Romanticism, Bicamerality, and the Evolution of the Brain, Edward Proffitt
  9. On Listening to Voices, John Sappington and John Hamilton
  10. A Schizophrenic Woman Who Heard Voices of the Gods, Russell T. Hurlburt
  11. Two Origins of Consciousness, Bill Rowe
  12. The Origin of Consciousness, Gains and Losses: Walker Percy vs. Julian Jaynes,
    Laura Mooneyham White
  13. Echoes of the Gods: Towards a Jaynesian Understanding of Rhetoric, Ted
    Remington
  14. Souls, Gods, Kings, and Mountains: Julian Jaynes’s Theory of the
    Bicameral Mind in Tibet, Part One,Todd Gibson
  15. Listening for Ancient Voices: Julian Jaynes’s Theory of the Bicameral
    Mind in Tibet, Part Two, Todd Gibson
  16. Vico and Jaynes: Neurocultural and Cognitive Operations in the Origin
    of Consciousness, Robert E. Haskell

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