The Julian Jaynes Collection
FROM THE DUST JACKET"Julian Jaynes's theories for the nature of self-awareness, introspection, and consciousness have replaced the assumption of their almost ethereal uniqueness with explanations that could initiate the next change in paradigm for human thought." -- Michael Persinger, inReflections on the Dawn of Consciousness"... A theory that could alter our view of consciousness, revise our conception of the history of mankind, and lay bare the human dilemma in all its existential wonder." -- James E. Morriss, inETC: A Review of General Semantics"Some of Jaynes's original ideas may be the most important of our generation." -- Ernest Rossi, inPsychological Perspectives"Neuroimaging techniques of today have illuminated and confirmed the importance of Jaynes's hypothesis." -- Robert Olin inLancet"... One of the clearest and most perspicuous defenses of the top-down approach [to consciousness] that I have ever come across." -- Daniel Dennett, inBrainchildren"... I sympathize with Julian Jaynes's claim that something of great import may have happened to the human mind during the relatively brief interval of time between the events narrated in theIliadand those that make up theOdyssey." -- Antonio Damasio, inSelf Comes to Mind"Julian Jaynes is a scholar in the broad original sense of that term. A man of huge creative vitality, Julian Jaynes is my academic man for all seasons." --Hubert Dolezal, inThe MacLeod Symposium"... A theory that could alter our view of consciousness, revise our conception of the history of mankind, and lay bare the human dilemma in all its existential wonder."James E. Morriss, inETC: A Review of General Semantics"Some of Jaynes's original ideas may be the most important of our generation." --Ernest Rossi, inPsychological Perspectives"Neuroimaging techniques of today have illuminated and confirmed the importance of Jaynes's hypothesis."Robert Olin inLancet"... One of the clearest and most perspicuous defenses of the top-down approach [to consciousness] that I have ever come across."Daniel Dennett, inBrainchildren"... I sympathize with Julian Jaynes's claim that something of great import may have happened to the human mind during the relatively brief interval of time between the events narrated in theIliadand those that make up theOdyssey."Antonio Damasio, inSelf Comes to Mind"Julian Jaynes is a scholar in the broad original sense of that term. A man of huge creative vitality, Julian Jaynes is my academic man for all seasons." --Hubert Dolezal, inThe MacLeod Symposium