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1920–1997 United States

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.

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Also known as: Julian Jeynes

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Conscious mind is a spatial analog of the world and mental acts are analogs of bodily acts. Consciousness operates only on objectively observable things. Or, to say it another way with echoes of John Locke, there is nothing in consciousness that is not an analog of something that was in behavior first.

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)

I therefore believe that these and many other movements of our time are in the great long picture of our civilizations related to the loss of an earlier organization of human natures. They are attempts to return to what is no longer there, like poets to their inexistent Muses, and as such they are characteristic of these transitional millennia in which we are imbedded.

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Julian Jaynes (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.