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Our sense of justice depends on our sense of time. Justice is a phenomenon only of consciousness, be...

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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Logic is the science of the justification of conclusions we have reached by natural reasoning. My po...

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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

O, what a world of unseen visions and heard silences, this insubstantial country of the mind! What i...

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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocab...

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Consciousness is a much smaller part of our mental life than we are conscious of, because we cannot ...

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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

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Julian Jaynes

Psychologist

Born: 1920-02-27

Died: 1997-11-21

Julian Jaynes (27 February 1920 – 21 November 1997) was an American psychologist, best known for his book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976), in which he argued that ancient peoples were not conscious.More