Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind - The Julian Jaynes Society Podcast

History, Not Evolution, Is the Key Variable for Understanding Consciousness: The Temporal Extension Thesis and the Adaptive PsycheBy Brian J. McVeigh Produced by Marcel Kuijsten. Read by Michael R. Jacobs ( ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.theungoogleable.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.youtube.com/@VoidDenizen⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ). The human mind is always adjusting, accommodating, and adopting resources from outside itself to expand...

Has Human Mentality Changed? Part 2: Cognitive Relativism and Jaynesian Psychology By Brian J. McVeigh Produced by Marcel Kuijsten. Read by Michael R. Jacobs ( ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.theungoogleable.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.youtube.com/@VoidDenizen⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ). In Part 1 of “Has Human Mentality Changed?” I discussed how the contributions of Julian Jaynes bolster a radical neuroplastic understanding of the mind, e...

Has Human Mentality Changed? Part 1: Neuroplasticity and Jaynesian Psychology By Brian J. McVeigh Produced by Marcel Kuijsten. Read by Michael R. Jacobs ( ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.theungoogleable.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.youtube.com/@VoidDenizen⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ). The media and scientific journals give much attention to “neuroplasticity” (the brain’s innate ability to form and reorganize synaptic connections in response to l...

Putting Julian Jaynes’s Theory to the Test Jaynes’s Theorizings, Like All Great Systems of Thought, Require Hypotheses-testing and Experimentation to Be Substantiated By Brian J. McVeigh Produced by Marcel Kuijsten. Read by Michael R. Jacobs ( ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.theungoogleable.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.youtube.com/@VoidDenizen⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ). It is easy to forget that the Newtonian, Darwinian, and Einsteinian intellectu...

Fact Checking Scott Alexander’s Discussion of Julian Jaynes’s Theory on “Slate Star Codex” By Marcel Kuijsten Produced by Marcel Kuijsten. Read by Michael R. Jacobs ( ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.theungoogleable.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.youtube.com/@VoidDenizen⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ). In June 2020, the psychiatrist and blogger Scott Alexander wrote a review of Julian Jaynes’s  The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral...

Conscious Interiority Is a Constellation of Processes But Attention-grabbing Headlines in the Scientific Literature Mistakenly Suggest that Consciousness is an All-purpose Psychological Stuff By Brian J. McVeigh Produced by Marcel Kuijsten. Read by Michael R. Jacobs ( ⁠⁠⁠⁠www.theungoogleable.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠⁠www.youtube.com/@VoidDenizen⁠⁠⁠⁠ ). Pretend you’re from another dimension and unfamiliar with...

Conscious Interiority and the Language Trap Why We Struggle to Explain Consciousness By Brian J. McVeigh Produced by Marcel Kuijsten. Read by Michael R. Jacobs ( ⁠⁠⁠www.theungoogleable.com⁠⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠⁠www.youtube.com/@VoidDenizen⁠⁠⁠ ). Cleaning up the mess surrounding the uses of “consciousness” is not an airy, abstruse, or esoteric subject, a topic only for absent-minded academics with their heads in...

A Relay-Race Model of Conscious Interiority A Cultural Invention, Consciousness Needs to Be Relearned with Each Generation By Brian J. McVeigh Produced by Marcel Kuijsten. Read by Michael R. Jacobs ( ⁠⁠www.theungoogleable.com⁠⁠ , ⁠⁠www.youtube.com/@VoidDenizen⁠⁠ ). The word “consciousness” usually evokes something neuroanatomical, intimately bound up with perceptual experiences, an evolutionary ps...

Consciousness Is a Cultural Add-on A Product of History Not Reducible to Neurology, Conscious Interiority Is Like Mathematics By Brian J. McVeigh Produced by Marcel Kuijsten. Read by Michael R. Jacobs ( ⁠www.theungoogleable.com⁠ , ⁠www.youtube.com/@VoidDenizen⁠ ). When we hear the word “consciousness” many of us, in a knee-jerk manner, associate it with neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, or something...

Jaynesian Therapeutics and the Self-healing Mind: Part 2 Lessons from Hallucinations, Hypnosis, and Meditation By Brian J. McVeigh Produced by Marcel Kuijsten. Read by Michael R. Jacobs ( www.theungoogleable.com , www.youtube.com/@VoidDenizen ). In Part 1 we looked at how something we take for granted — consciousness — is actually an active ingredient that can aid in the repair of the mind for cer...

Jaynesian Therapeutics and the Self-healing Mind: Part 1 Harnessing the Active Ingredients of Psychotherapy By Brian J. McVeigh Produced by Marcel Kuijsten. Read by Michael R. Jacobs ( www.theungoogleable.com ). His YouTube channel is  www.youtube.com/@VoidDenizen . It is an interesting fact that the success rates for different psychotherapies are about the same. This is why researchers have searc...

Appreciating Other Facets of Jaynesian Psychology: Part 2 By Brian J. McVeigh Produced by Marcel Kuijsten. In Part 1 of “Appreciating Other Facets of Jaynesian Psychology” I began a discussion of aspects of Jaynesian psychology that if appreciated, add depth and perhaps persuasiveness to Jaynes’s arguments. I focused on how understanding Jaynes investigation of how language has constructed conscio...

Appreciating Other Facets of Jaynesian Psychology: Part 1 By Brian J. McVeigh Produced by Marcel Kuijsten. Jaynesian psychology can be distilled down to two major claims. First, until about three millennia ago individual behavior was governed by a different neurocultural arrangement called bicameral mentality: the right hemisphere generated audiovisual hallucinations interpreted as supernatural vi...

Fact Checking Erik Hoel’s Comments on Julian Jaynes's Theory in "The World Behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science." A brief discussion between Marcel Kuijsten and Brian J. McVeigh, fact checking Erik Hoel's recent comments on Julian Jaynes's theory in his book "The World Behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science....

Includes discussion of the problem of consciousness, what is consciousness is and is not according to Julian Jaynes, the importance of metaphorical language and writing, features of consciousness, Nicholas Humphrey's research on cave art and autism, evidence from the Iliad, ancient bicameral civilizations, the Thera explosion and ensuing tsunami, and Michael Carr's research on the bicamera...

"Julian Jaynes and the Bicameral Mind Theory," an interview with Marcel Kuijsten by Dustin Eirdosh. Includes an introduction to Julian Jaynes's theory, an explanation of what consciousness is and is not according to Julian Jaynes, consciousness and language, an explanation of the bicameral mind, follow up books on Jaynes's theory, the origin of the Julian Jaynes Society, misconce...