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Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind: The Theories of Julian Jaynes. Julian Jaynes Society. ISBN 978-0-9790744-3-1. Includes essays on a variety of aspects of Jaynes's theory, including ancient history, language, the development of consciousness in children, and the transition from bicameral mentality to consciousness in ancient Tibet.
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind is a 1976 book by the Princeton psychologist, psychohistorian [a] and consciousness theorist Julian Jaynes (1920-1997). It explores the nature of consciousness – particularly "the ability to introspect" – and its evolution in ancient human history.
Julian Jaynes (February 27, 1920 – November 21, 1997) was an American psychologist at Yale and Princeton for nearly 25 years, best known for his 1976 book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. [1]
The term 'collective cognitive imperative' was first used by Princeton University psychology professor Julian Jaynes in his 1976 book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. 1 Jaynes viewed it as one of four aspects of the "General Bicameral Paradigm" which he used to characterize many modern phenomena that involve a diminished consciousness, such as oracles and ...
In The "Other" Psychology of Julian Jaynes: Ancient Languages, Sacred Visions, and Forgotten Mentalities he examined what he calls the super-religiosity of Bronze Age civilizations and proposed the "bicameral civilization inventory hypothesis" and the "embryonic psycholexicon hypothesis" of archaic societies. [2]
Julian Jaynes hypothesized a bicameral mind theory (which relies heavily on Gazzaniga's research on split-brain patients), where the communication between Wernicke's area and its right-hemisphere analogue was the "bicameral" structure. This structure resulted in voices/images that represented mostly warning and survival instruction, originating ...
Also, the theory deserves it's own article, as there are many sources that cite it. Though it is much more commonly referred to as "Bicameral mind" than the current title Bicameral mentality, my recent move proposal failed. Skyerise 13:26, 26 March 2024 (UTC) Um, virtually no sources anywhere ever literally call anything "fringe".
This should be moved to bicameral mind for a natural disambiguation, which is preferred over parenthetical. Bensci54 15:12, 11 February 2024 (UTC) Except that "Bicameral mind" is a term specific to Julian Jaynes and the article scope is stated to be broader than just Jaynes' theories. Bicameralism is the more general term.