"Overcoming Intellectual Barriers to Understanding Julian Jaynes's Theory," a lecture given by Dr. Brian J. McVeigh (University of Arizona) at the 2006 Julian Jaynes Conference on Consciousness at the University of Prince Edward Island
I go to USF in Tampa and I don't really know how I came across this but I am so intrigued I am going to learn more, these ideas and thoughts make me want to switch majors.
Well done. The common lack of amazement at conscious interiority seems almost criminally negligent to me. How, indeed, do these mindless atoms of ours *know* that they're alive?
Before reading Jaynes, I used the term consciousness most often as this unexplained phenomenon of awareness or sentience, but not necessarily as interiority and identity. Once I got past that, I began to be amazed at Jaynes' ideas. It's the most thought-provoking and brilliant book I've ever read.
Oh! Now I get it...
SillySantaHat 1 month ago
I go to USF in Tampa and I don't really know how I came across this but I am so intrigued I am going to learn more, these ideas and thoughts make me want to switch majors.
babyshambles4life 2 years ago
Well done. The common lack of amazement at conscious interiority seems almost criminally negligent to me. How, indeed, do these mindless atoms of ours *know* that they're alive?
Before reading Jaynes, I used the term consciousness most often as this unexplained phenomenon of awareness or sentience, but not necessarily as interiority and identity. Once I got past that, I began to be amazed at Jaynes' ideas. It's the most thought-provoking and brilliant book I've ever read.
frozenge 2 years ago