About Julian Jaynes
Julian Jaynes was an American researcher, psychologist, and historian. He was affiliated with Harvard, Yale, and Princeton for nearly 25 years. He is best known for his 1976 book on the origins of consciousness: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. According to his book, his career was dedicated to the hard problem of consciousness. His theory of the bicameral mind was an inspiration for the HBO television show Westworld.
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Born in West Newton, Massachusetts, Julian Jaynes did his undergraduate work at Harvard and McGill and received both his master’s and doctoral degrees in psychology from Yale. After Yale, Jaynes spent several years in England working as an actor and playwright. Jaynes later returned to the states, and lectured in psychology at Princeton University from 1966 to 1990, teaching a popular class on consciousness for much of that time. In addition, he had numerous positions as Visiting Lecturer or Scholar in Residence in departments of philosophy, English, and archaeology and in numerous medical schools. Julian Jaynes was an associate editor of the internationally renowned journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences and on the editorial board of the Journal of Mind and Behavior. . .
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Black, Jeremy, and Anthony Green. Gods, Demons, and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Illustrated Dictionary. Illustrations by Tessa Rickards. London, United Kingdom: The British Museum Press, 1992.
Cirlot Laporta, Juan Eduardo. A Dictionary of Symbols. Second Editions. Translated by Jack Sage. London, England: Routledge, 2001. [E-book edition by Taylor & Francis]
Jaynes, Julian. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1976.
Kuijsten, Marcel. "Julian Jaynes Society." Henderson, NV: Julian Jaynes Society, 1997. Created 1997. Accessed September 1, 2022. https://julianjaynes.org.
