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- From: markb@iplmail.orl.mmc.com (Mark Bower)
- Subject: Bicameral Mind
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.163806.28341@iplmail.orl.mmc.com>
- Sender: markb@iplmail (Mark Bower)
- Organization: Martin Marietta
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:38:06 GMT
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- Hello. I am new to this newsgroup and Psychology in general.
- Recently, I started reading Julian Jayne's _Origin_of_Consciousness_
- and_the_Breakdown_of_the_Bicameral_Mind and found his central
- concept fascinating and _internally_ consistent.
-
- I am wondering what has become of his work since it was published.
- My book lists a publish date of the early seventies ( I don't have it
- with me). Has his work been corroborated, rejected, ignored, extended,
- of otherwise pursued?
-
- If it has been discarded, what other research/theories have arisen
- to explain the ubiquitousness of god/gods/religion in virtually all
- societies and their overwhelming similarities?
-
- I have read some of the work of Joseph Campbell who clearly identifies
- the similarities in the context, content, and importance of myths in
- the human view of God, but he never _really_ addresses how we humans
- arrived at the need/realization of gods/a god.
-
- All other work I have seen appears to limit it's academic concern to
- the aquisition of speech, bipedal gait, visual communication, tools,
- and other behaviors. Everyone seems to ignore consciousness. Is it in
- the "too hard" pile? I have read Edelman's Neural_Darwinism and The_
- Remembered_Present which gave excellent possible models of current
- human cognition. Has anyone tried outlining a _developmental_ mechanism
- for this model?
-
- I count 4 "?" above so I guess that's enough for now! :-) Thanks to
- anyone who can help. Mark.
-