48+ The Origin Of Consciousness In The Breakdown Of The Bicameral Mind Gif. .the bicameral mind is an interesting read in the same way of other contemporaneous books of the 1970s that sought to explain old ideas with bold new claims are interesting. Gods, graves, and idols ;
At the heart of this classic, seminal book is jaynes's controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only 3,000 years ago and still is developing.
The ideas in this book are to psychohistory what the ideas in origin of species were to biology. Whereas for such past people, those with bicameral minds, jaynes reads the texts of their seeing and hearing gods frequently as literal. The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind. Discussion group for enthusiasts of julian jaynes's the.
