Julian Jaynes Review

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[Vice81]

You might want to consider delving into some of terrence mckenna's work at this point, he and jaynes seem to go hand in hand.

[NotRyanFaulk]

Well I saw a 3 minute schpeel of McKenna talking about how "values are handed down" from some archons, and how the whole world could be a "community", and from some video titles I saw he's against what he calls "capitalism" so he's clearly an economic ignoramus. He seems pretty dumb so far, just a dime-a-dozen "anti-authoritarian" who wants to force the makers to give to the takers, so unless you have something specifically insightful to point to, that will remain my opinion of him.

[Hamandchees3]

How does Jaynes know hallucinations were more frequent in the past? I would conjecture that theres a strong selection bias in historical texts for stories involving hallucinations, from the apostles to Constantine. I.e. people saw visions and heard voices at the same rate, but the surviving texts are mostly religious in nature and therefore over-represent hallucinations.

[NotRyanFaulk]

Jaynes also talks about encounters between the Spanish and the Americans, and how the Americans, especially early on, would tell the Spanish they were having hallucinations almost every day. He also describes the change in religious texts from a description of hallucinations to more abstract ideas, how the Oracles declined in popularity over time and eventually became ridiculed and how they went from...

[NotRyanFaulk]

being a place where anyone could come and commune with the gods to having specialists (which we now know were just people prone to hallucination), often young girls, have an episode and these episodes were interpreted by priests. Jaynes goes into depth of the progression of thought within the classical period.

[ohbobsagetpiss]

Julian Jaynes sounds like a pornstar name.

[TheMindFarter]

Good video! I actully hear voices alot. People shouting my name in anger.

I think you should make a video just recomending books.

[psychuous1]

@wickedhorizoninc Does your liver not work the same as mine? Do you have to eat food the same as I do? Do you have to breath air and drink water the same as the rest of us do?

[psychuous1]

@supaBALOONIST Every organ in your body has a self cleaning process, and so does your mind... Dreaming is the process that your mind sorts out reality from non-reality. Disregard your dreams as non-reality. They will go away.

[psychuous1]

@Sasuke90000000 Do you have proof of your claim?

[psychuous1]

@TheMindFarter You can read Neo-Tech Zon Power or NeoThink, these 2 books will help you break free from voices in your head to mystic free thinking.

[Sasuke90000000]

@TheMindFarter its fallen angels. You can rebuke them in Jesus' name.

[thatkamikid]

Well, not all greeks believed in their religion.They all sorta did it as theatre.Also, this theory doesn't explain eastern religions.I'm talking about buddhism or taoism where central worship comes from a concept or a teaching rather than a spirit.Buddhism(my religion) has a lot of spirits but less than shenism or shintoism.I certainly hear of tales of demons and gods coming from my guru.Taoist doctrine is completely based on wisdom and only a few spiritual and vague concepts poping up.

[MySonicc]

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[xXMetalMeltdownXx]

@sharperguy - Interesting idea, but I do not really think that sentence structure is a result of primitive psychology. If we were to say 'I beat my heart' it would imply that it is a conscious action made by a person. I think 'My heart beats' is accurate, because the heart beats without having the person make the conscious decision to make it do so.

[supaBALOONIST]

WOW! All that stuff you said was really facinating! You said that you know how the brain works so does that mean you why we actually dream? Also, you said about at the end of a dream you are almost awake mentally, I had a dream recently and it got really wierd at the end.