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Quotes from The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind — Julian Jaynes

1920–1997 United States

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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.