The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind.
by JAYNES, JULIAN:
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Allen Lane. 1979. 1st UK.. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. In dark blue cloth covers with gilt to spine. With original dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w. slightly creased along top edge. Not price clipped). Small marks to edges. neat inscription to front endpaper, dated 1984. Occasional pencil underlining and marginal notes throughout, several in ink. Else a clean and tight copy. 467 pp. With b/w illustrations. Bicameral mentality is a hypothesis introduced by Julian Jaynes who argued human ancestors as late as the ancient Greeks did not consider emotions and desires as stemming from their own minds but as the consequences of actions of gods external to themselves. The theory posits that the human mind once operated in a state in which cognitive functions were divided between one part of the brain which appears to be "speaking", and a second part which listens and obeys—a bicameral mind, and that the breakdown of this division gave rise to consciousness in humans. The term was coined by Jaynes who presented the idea in his 1976 book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, wherein he made the case that a bicameral mentality was the normal and ubiquitous state of the human mind as recently as 3,000 years ago, near the end of the Mediterranean bronze age. However, his theory remains controversial in scientific circles, with discussions ongoing regarding its validity and the extent to which ancient consciousness truly differed from our modern experience. [Wikipedia]
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- Allen Lane. 1979. 1st UK.
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