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The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind

by Julian Jaynes

1976 467 pages eng ★ 4.0 (9 ratings)

At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary …

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