Consciousness is always open to many possibilities because it involves play. It is always an adventure.
Indeed, it is sometimes almost as if the problem had to be forgotten to be solved. - Julian Jaynes
Indeed, it is sometimes almost as if the problem had to be forgotten to be solved.
- Julian Jaynes
Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets. - Julian Jaynes
Poetry begins as the divine speech of the bicameral mind. Then, as the bicameral mind breaks down, there remain prophets.
Alfred Russel Wallace, the codiscoverer of the theory of natural selection. Following their twin announcements of the theory in 1858, both Darwin and… - Julian Jaynes
Alfred Russel Wallace, the codiscoverer of the theory of natural selection. Following their twin announcements of the theory in 1858, both Darwin and…
Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocabulary or lexical field whose terms are all metaph… - Julian Jaynes
Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocabulary or lexical field whose terms are all metaph…
No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist. - Julian Jaynes
No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist.
There is no such thing as a complete consciousness. - Julian Jaynes
There is no such thing as a complete consciousness.
I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind. - Julian Jaynes
I shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.
The king dead is a living god. - Julian Jaynes
The king dead is a living god.
"What is the meaning of life?" This question has no answer except in the history of how it came to be asked. There is no answer because words have me… - Julian Jaynes
"What is the meaning of life?" This question has no answer except in the history of how it came to be asked. There is no answer because words have me…
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