Origin Of Consciousness/Bicameral Mind

Author: Julian Jaynes

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Price : 45.00 NZD
ISBN : 9780618057078
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Imprint : Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
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Weight (g) : 0.708
Publication date : November 2000
Dimensions : 152mm X 229mm X 34mm
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Author : Julian Jaynes
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Dewey classification : 128.2
Pages : 512
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At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Jaynes's controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only 3,000 years ago and still is developing.

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"When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium b.c. men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis." -- John Updike The New Yorker