Original sentence: Criticisms included:.His proposals were controversial, and provided impetus for other scientists and philosophers to investigate the matters it discussed in detail in order to attempt to refute its arguments.the conclusions Jaynes drew had no basis in neuropsychiatric fact at that time.the idea that consciousness is a cultural construction is hard to take seriously
Edited sentence: A certain amount of dogmatism exists in academia — and especially in psychology — such that advocating controversial ideas is often difficult for those purusing tenure at a major university.His proposals generated great controversy when first published, and provided impetus for many other scientists and philosophers to investigate the matters it discussed in detail in order to attempt to refute its arguments.His supporters attribute this to four primary reasons:.Many pre-judged Jaynes's ideas on consciousness without actually reading his theory; in other words, they judged Jaynes's ideas on a recent development of consciousness based on their own more broad (and some would say incorrect) understanding of the term consciousness, not Jaynes's more precise definition.Others read his discussion of consciousness but clearly still misunderstood it.Some scientists considered Jayne's hypothesis to lack sufficient confirmatory evidence to warrant further investigation.The broad nature of the theory, with many feeling unqualified to comment on aspects of the theory that fell outside of their area of expertise,