Julian Jaynes
Psychologist
•1920-1997
American psychologist whose radical theory proposed that human consciousness emerged only 3,000 years ago. His bicameral mind hypothesis suggests ancient humans experienced their own thoughts as voices of gods, fundamentally challenging assumptions about the nature and history of human awareness.
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Key Contributions
- • Bicameral mind theory - consciousness as recent human development
- • Proposed ancient minds heard thoughts as divine commands
- • Linked collapse of bicamerality to development of modern self-awareness
- • Connected schizophrenia to vestiges of bicameral mind
- • Challenged assumptions about consciousness in The Origin of Consciousness
Famous Quotes
"Consciousness is a much smaller part of our mental life than we are conscious of."
"We invent the mind we are describing."
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