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The Jaynes Legacy : Shining New Light Through the Cracks of the Bicameral Mind.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wile, Lawrence.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Consciousness.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (250 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Jaynes Legacy
- Place of Publication:
- Luton, Bedfordshire : Andrews UK Ltd., 2018.
- Summary:
- Julian Jaynes' 1976 book, The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, continues to arouse an unsettling ambivalence. Richard Dawkins called it "either complete rubbish or a work of consummate genius, nothing in between". The present book suggests that the bicameral mind is a phantasm; the dating of the origin of consciousness contradicts archeological and literary evidence; and the theory contributes nothing toward explaining why some physical states are conscious while others are not because the nonconscious bicameral brain is neurophysiologically equivalent to the conscious brain.However, the author pays tribute to Jaynes's work as a work of "consummate genius" because it compels us to re-evaluate the significance of humankind's earliest traditions and texts that might shine light on the "very suspicious totem of evolutionary mythology" that consciousness has evolved continuously and gradually from worms to man.The present book suggests that the evoluti...
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Front matter
- Title page
- Publisher information
- Body matter
- Introduction
- One - The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind: A Synopsis
- Two - Origins of The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
- Three - Assessment
- Four - Reissner's Fiber
- Five - Is Science a Vestige of the Search for Lost Hallucinatory Gods?
- Six - Reissner's Fiber, the "Subtle Anatomy," and the Devil
- Seven - Is the Old Testament an Account of the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind?
- Eight - The Legacy of Julian Jaynes: Shining New Light Through the Cracks of the Bicameral Mind
- Back matter
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781845409715
- 184540971X
- OCLC:
- 1020032527
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