RE: Anyone want to read and discuss "The Origin of Consc in the Breakdown of the B Mind ?
September 15, 2016 at 10:55 pm
It's been a while since I read Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Honestly, while I can't rightly say I've ever been an honest-to-Jah convert, I've never been wholly able to dismiss it.
Knowing Jaynes' background, how he came up with these ideas so far outside of the mainstream (especially for psychology in 1976), you can never be entirely sure if he's like Erich Hoffer, who wrote a massively influential book on the psychology of crowds in between shifts hauling shit off the San Francisco docks, or like Ayn Rand who basically wrote crib notes on Aristotle marrying it with the most unfettered laissez-faire capitalism and her own random-ass prejudices (including hatred of goddam Beethoven).
Still, subsequent research into some psychotic hallucinations, particularly "command hallucinations" really does jibe with his predictions. Then again, some of the history he puts in to support his theory can be dodgy.
Fact is, it's really too intriguing to ignore, too strange to really be accepted, but there's a good reason it's been in print for 40 years, and it's not because tycoons are paying the Julian Jaynes Society millions to ensure that people will defend their right to do whatever the hell they want unmolested, like some unorthodox philosophers we could mention.
Knowing Jaynes' background, how he came up with these ideas so far outside of the mainstream (especially for psychology in 1976), you can never be entirely sure if he's like Erich Hoffer, who wrote a massively influential book on the psychology of crowds in between shifts hauling shit off the San Francisco docks, or like Ayn Rand who basically wrote crib notes on Aristotle marrying it with the most unfettered laissez-faire capitalism and her own random-ass prejudices (including hatred of goddam Beethoven).
Still, subsequent research into some psychotic hallucinations, particularly "command hallucinations" really does jibe with his predictions. Then again, some of the history he puts in to support his theory can be dodgy.
Fact is, it's really too intriguing to ignore, too strange to really be accepted, but there's a good reason it's been in print for 40 years, and it's not because tycoons are paying the Julian Jaynes Society millions to ensure that people will defend their right to do whatever the hell they want unmolested, like some unorthodox philosophers we could mention.
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