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The term was coined by Jaynes, who presented the idea in his 1976 book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, [1] wherein he makes the case that a bicameral mentality was the normal and ubiquitous state of the human mind as recently as 3,000 years ago, at the end of the Mediterranean Bronze Age.
He places the origin of consciousness around the 2nd millennium BCE and suggests that the transition from the bicameral mind to consciousness was triggered by the breakdown of the bicameral system. The bicameral mind, he explains, was characterized by individuals experiencing auditory hallucinations as commands from gods, guiding their actions.
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]
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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 ...
Ned Block has mounted the overflow argument, which argues against the view that phenomenal consciousness and access consciousness are identical. Instead, Ned Block argues that phenomenal consciousness overflows conscious access, meaning that one can consciously experience something that they do not have conscious access to.
Some editor decided they were similar, not citable sources. Basically, there is a book proposing a theory, a few critics, and nobody really following in Jaynes' footsteps, so there is no reason for the "bicameral mentality" article, which isn't even the common-name term for the theory, which would be "bicameral mind".
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.