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Language: English
Published by Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Company, 1990
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- Title
- The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
- Author
- Jaynes, Julian
- Publisher
- Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Company
- Publication year
- 1990
- Condition
- good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0395563526
- ISBN 13
- 9780395563526
At the heart of this book is the revolutionary idea that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution. Rather, Jaynes presents consciousness as a learned process that evolved from an earlier hallucinatory mentality only three thousand years ago. The implications extend into every aspect if human life.
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"When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium b.c. men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis." -- John Updike The New Yorker
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