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Original Title:	The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
ISBN:	0618057072 (ISBN13: 9780618057078)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	National Book Award Finalist for Contemporary Thought (1978)

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Title	:	The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Author	:	Julian Jaynes
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Mariner Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 491 pages
Published	:	August 15th 2000 by Mariner Books (first published 1976)
Categories	:	Psychology. Philosophy. Nonfiction. Science. History

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At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion -- and indeed our future.

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I am giving Julian Jaynes The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (The Origin) four stars not because Ive become a devoted follower of his theory I havent but because it reflects exactly how I feel about it I really liked it. Jaynes writes in such a commanding manner that youre helplessly swept along to the end (at which point, you can finally catch your breath and begin to assess whats just happened). Once hes determined the correctness of his hypothesis to his own

Not for the faint of heart. I had to read it three times (and it's a very big book) in order to grasp the fundamentals of what the author was saying. I actually used this book a lot in writing my Atlantis series where I explored the untapped power of the subconscious mind. If you want to grasp how our brain developed, I highly recommend this book. It's hard to find, but it is out there.

I am giving this a five not because I buy into what Jaynes is saying, actually if anything I finished the book still a 100% skeptical about his ideas, but because his approach, his idea and his presentation was actually extremely good. Whether this proves true or not it was still vastly interesting and at least a new way at looking at the evolution of man. I mean when we look at evolution as it is we have to determine SOME point in time where man gained this thing we call consciousness. Some

This book is very strange. Julian Jaynes came out with strong thesis that our consciousness is the result of culture i.e. that the organization of our mind was different two millennia B.C. and started to breakdown around the first millennium B.C. Highly speculative but at the same time very well founded. The author studied thoroughly the ancient texts in order to support his view. Definitely worth of reading.

As an argument that Jaynes' thesis actually is true, severely disappointing. I can only assume that the people rating this as 5 stars are impressed by Jaynes' bold and outlandish theory, and not the actual argument that Jaynes sets out for it, which is quite clearly shoddy reasoning with the occasional lyrical flourish to smooth over the logical leaps. Some examples:- Jaynes establishes that what he calls consciousness -- a sort of mind-scape -- depends on metaphor. He points out that language

A mind-fuck of the highest order. A work of polymathemetical genius, probably wrong on many accounts but absolutely original in its approach. Extremely readable, unpretentious prose and probings into one of life's coolest mysteries. You'll never read the Oddessey the same way again, or think about schizophrenia or Ancient Sumeria in the same way. It's speculative power has made many a head spin, I think.

This was one of the most stimulating and important books I've ever encountered by a psychologist. Although flawed in some important respects, it is profoundly provocative, suggesting areas for further speculation and research not only in psychology, but also in the cultural anthropology of religions.The primary flaw of Jayne's work is his literary evidence for the claim that humans didn't develop reflective consciousness until ca. 1000 BCE. He relies too much on the earlier texts of the Iliad