And when it is suggested that the inward feelings of power or inward monitions or losses of judgement are the germs out of which the divine machinery developed, I return that truth is just the reverse, that the presence of voices which had to be obeyed were the absolute prerequisite to the conscious stage of mind in which it is the self that is responsible and can debate within itself, can order and direct, and that the creation of such a self is the product of culture. In a sense, we have become our own gods.
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…
- Julian Jaynes
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.
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.
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.
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…
The king dead is a living god. - Julian Jaynes
The king dead is a living god.
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.
"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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