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Why are gods and idols ubiquitous throughout the ancient world? What is the relationship of consciousness and language? How is it that oracles came to influence entire nations such as Greece? If consciousness arose far back in human evolution, how can it so easily be altered in hypnosis and... read more
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- Julian Jaynes, author and Prof. at Princeton University.: Traces history of the study of the mind and the origins of religion, schizophrenia, and related topics. Advocates atheism
- Ayn Rand , Russian woman philosopher: Objectivism is the theme of her philosophy
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Foreword by Michael A. Persinger
Preface
Introduction by Marcel Kuijsten
PART I: Julian Jaynes
1. Julian Jaynes: Introducing His Life and Thought
William R. Woodward & June F. Tower
PART II: Voices of the Mind
2. The Ghost of a Flea: Visions of William Blake
Julian Jaynes
3. Verbal Hallucinations and Preconscious Mentality
Julian Jaynes
4. Consciousness, Hallucinations, and the Bicameral Mind: Three Decades of New Research
Marcel Kuijsten
5. Auditory Hallucinations in Nonverbal Quadriplegics
John Hamilton
PART III: Consciousness and the Self
6. Language and Consciousness: Jaynes's "Preposterous Idea" Reconsidered
John Limber
7. The Self as Interiorized Social Relations: Applying a Jaynesian Approach to Problems of Agency and Volition
Brian J. McVeigh
8. A Knowing Noos and a Slippery Psychê: Jaynes's Recipe for an Unnatural Theory of Consciousness
Scott Greer
PART IV: The Origin of Religion
9. The Oracles and Their Cessation: A Tribute to Julian Jaynes
David C. Stove
PART V: Ancient Civilizations
10. The Meaning of King Tut
Julian Jaynes
11. Greek Zombies: On the Alleged Absurdity of Substantially Unconscious Greek Minds
Jan Sleutels
12. Dragons of the Shang Dynasty: The Hidden Faces
Julian Jaynes
13. The Shi 'Corpse/Personator' Ceremony in Early China
Michael Carr
Authors & Contributors edit
- Marcel Kuijsten (Editor)
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