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<\/a><\/div>\nThe Origin of
\nConsciousness In the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind \u2013 Julian Jaynes (1976)<\/span><\/u><\/b><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>For weeks now I have
\nbeen lost in the pages of this amazing book, one which came to my attention
\nthrough the bibliographies in several of my previous reads.\u00a0 <\/span>One of my favorite literary experiences is
\nwhen I finally find a seminal book oft quoted or referenced in other books.
\nSuch a book is The Origin of Consciousness In the Breakdown of the Bicameral
\nMind<\/i>.\u00a0 <\/span>Author Julian Jaynes has
\naccomplished something outstandingly original and beautiful, providing what is
\nperhaps the best explanation of what we modern humans call \u201cConsciousness,\u201d how
\nit came to be, and how we can track that development.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Books like this contain
\nso much within their pages.\u00a0 <\/span>It is
\ndifficult enough to absorb all the information and ideas shared by the author,
\nbut discussing it intelligently is another matter entirely. In the over 11
\nyears I have kept this book-review blog I have enjoyed countless books, but
\nvery few have coalesced knowledge and wisdom in my brain like The Origin of
\nConsciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind <\/i>has.\u00a0 <\/span>It is a masterpiece of insight and research.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Jaynes divides his work
\ninto three \u201cbooks,\u201d the first one dealing with consciousness itself, what it
\nis, and where it comes from.\u00a0 <\/span>This alone
\nis enough material for a great book.\u00a0 <\/span>The
\nfirst great insight that the author shares involves consciousness itself.\u00a0 <\/span>We modern humans assume that our brains work
\nin the same manner as all early humans.\u00a0
\n<\/span>We have an internal \u201cI,\u201d designating an interior head-space that exists
\noutside of time and place, and which us modern humans see as our true selves,
\nour internal monologue.\u00a0 <\/span>Jaynes central
\nproposition is that this internal \u201cI, this sense of individual consciousness,
\nonly arose in humanity after the invention of written language.\u00a0 <\/span>Before this time, humans lived in what Jaynes
\nterms a \u201cbicameral mind.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>To explain what
\n\u201cbicameral mind\u201d refers to, I must go into a bit of neurology and brain
\nstructure.\u00a0 <\/span>We humans have essentially
\ntwo separate brains, connected through several channels, (the corpus-callosum
\nis the main one, a bundle of nerves which allow signals to be sent from one
\nbrain hemisphere to the other), allowing them to communicate with each other,
\nand to control different aspects of life.\u00a0
\n<\/span>For example, our left hemisphere contains Brocka\u2019s and Wernicke\u2019s
\nareas.\u00a0 <\/span>These are two parts of our brain
\nthat handle language, with Brocka\u2019s area controlling speech production,
\nallowing our physical mouth and tongue to create meaningful words, and
\nWernicke\u2019s area handling the other end of speech, that being language
\ncomprehension, the mental understanding of the auditory signals received by our
\nears through spoken language.\u00a0 <\/span>In
\npatients who suffer from traumatic brain injuries, strokes, or other such
\nconditions, these areas are sometimes affected, which was the initial impetus
\nfor understanding the various sections of our brain.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Julian Jaynes posits
\nthat, before the advent of the written word, humanity lived in a very different
\nstate of mind, the bicameral mind, a consciousness completely unaware of
\nitself, quite the opposite of our current view of consciousness which we feel
\nexists independently of our physical being.\u00a0
\n<\/span>For tens of thousands of years, humans lived in groups led by a
\n\u201cking.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>These kings dictated how the
\npeople of a said group would live. The truly great and long-lived kings would
\nbe remembered long after their death, their words still echoing in their
\nfollower\u2019s heads.\u00a0 <\/span>This was not seen as
\nan aberration.\u00a0 <\/span>Humans found it perfectly
\nlogical that a dead king would continue talking in their heads, as if still
\nalive. The greater the king, the longer the voice would live on in his
\nfollowers.\u00a0 <\/span>As evidence of this, Julian
\nJaynes discusses how for over ten thousand years, human burials followed the
\nsame pattern.\u00a0 <\/span>The deceased was not seen
\nas dead, in the way we modern humans see things.\u00a0 <\/span>As long as their voice could be heard the
\nking was alive. Because of this, the dead were buried with food, clothing,
\ntools, and all sorts of items that would be useful to the dead person\u2019s continuing
\n\u201clife.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>The high culture of the
\nEgyptians was the pinnacle of this thinking, with Pharaohs buried alongside
\ndozens of sacrificed slaves, wives, animals, etc.\u00a0 <\/span>Their isolation in northeast Africa allowed
\nthem to maintain their bicameral culture the longest, even after the advent of
\nwritten language.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Julian Jaynes posits
\nthat the first gods were the dead kings whose voices and commands could still
\nbe heard in the people\u2019s heads.\u00a0 <\/span>This
\nmakes a lot of sense as ancestor worship is the oldest spiritual practice still
\nfound among us humans.\u00a0 <\/span>Many of the
\noldest tribal cultures in the world today still observe a lengthy period
\nbetween when a person\u2019s body stops breathing and when they feel the person is
\ntruly dead and ready to be buried\/cremated\/etc.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>This same bicameral
\nstructure is evident in Mesoamerica, where dozens of city states sprung up,
\nflourished, and died over millennia.\u00a0
\n<\/span>These cities are all remarkably similar, containing a large central
\npyramid of structure housing the king, and in later times, the statue of the
\nlocal god.\u00a0 <\/span>Everything about their lives
\nwas dictated by the king\/god-king\/god, and sometimes the entire city-state
\nwould revert back to the jungle after the death of a prominent king.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Sometime around 2,500
\nyears ago, everything changed.\u00a0 <\/span>In
\nMesopotamia, a writing system was created which altered our entire world and,
\naccording to Julian Jaynes, altered our brain\u2019s structure.\u00a0 <\/span>This was cuneiform, a method of writing which
\ninvolves pressing a wooden stylus into wet clay, leaving triangular marks.\u00a0 <\/span>Cuneiform is not a language, but a system of
\nwriting, and due to this, it was used to write down things in Assyrian, Emetic,
\nAkkadian, and many other languages.\u00a0
\n<\/span>Essentially, once a remote king found that his proclamations could be
\nwritten down and shared without him needing to personally deliver the
\ninformation, he then asked his scholars to use cuneiform to write down his
\nproclamations, history, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>In this sense, writing
\nwas not what we think of today, words which, when read, create a narrative in
\nour minds.\u00a0 <\/span>Much like ancient temples,
\nstatuary, and religious artifacts initially did, writing allowed ancient humans
\nto hallucinate words and instructions, keeping the king\u2019s voice alive well past
\nhis death.\u00a0 <\/span>It was an immensely valuable
\ntool for social control in a time before individual consciousness.\u00a0 <\/span>For millennia, humanity passed down its
\naccrued knowledge verbally, with specific people in each tribe\/group designated
\nto be the memory carriers, reciting long poems and stories from memory in order
\nto share wisdom and instructions with the next generation.\u00a0 <\/span>These bards would not specifically memorize a
\ntext, for there was no texts back then.\u00a0
\n<\/span>What they did was remember the salient points of a tale, concerning an
\nold god-king perhaps, and then add in connective language as they reiterated
\nthe story in question to a new audience. This way allowed the important points
\nto be learned by the audience, while also allowing the storyteller to shape his
\nstories, adding and subtracting parts as they saw fit to.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The written word changed
\nall of this.\u00a0 <\/span>Julian Jaynes recounts a
\nvery dark era in the history of our developing consciousness.\u00a0 <\/span>The period of time, around 500-1000 years
\nafter the initial breakdown of the bicameral mind, sometime around 500 BC, was
\na time of dissolution, fear, and mass-violence.\u00a0
\n<\/span>Before the written language, civilizations lived near each other in
\nrelative peace, trading goods and food items, but generally just leaving each
\nother alone.\u00a0 <\/span>It was understood that
\nother human groups followed their own gods\/kings, and that was good enough for
\nthem.\u00a0 <\/span>Once writing appeared, the
\n\u201cvoices\u201d of the gods\/kings no longer reverberated through the people\u2019s minds,
\ncausing chaos, and uncertainty.\u00a0 <\/span>The idea
\nof an individual \u201cI\u201d was unnecessary before this, for everyone knew what their
\nrole was, what they were expected to do in life, and why they did it.\u00a0 <\/span>The god-king\u2019s proclamations were followed
\nwithout question, for he spoke directly from the gods.\u00a0 <\/span>The bicameral mind did not seek explanations.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The written word quieted
\nthat internal voice that repeated the gods\/kings proclamations.\u00a0 <\/span>City states became too large for easy control
\nof the population.\u00a0 <\/span>It was at this time
\nthat specialists came into being, people whose breeding, training, or social
\nstatus prepared them to be interlocutors between the god and the people.\u00a0 <\/span>These were the beginnings of the sacerdotal
\nsects that we all currently deal with.\u00a0
\n<\/span>Even these methods were not enough to hold the homogeny, and the cities
\nslowly fell into ruin and disuse, as people moved back out into the wilds to
\nmake their own lives.\u00a0 <\/span>Because of this,
\nthere was an extreme rise in violence and warfare.\u00a0 <\/span>Without the god\u2019s voices keeping everyone
\nsafe, neighbors were seen as violent, evil, \u201cother,\u201d etc., and the need to
\nexterminate them arose.\u00a0 <\/span>During this turbulent
\nperiod, it is estimated that in both the western and eastern worlds, nearly 90%
\nof the human population was exterminated.\u00a0
\n<\/span>This was wholesale genocide on a planetary level.\u00a0 <\/span>Humans are our own worst enemies.\u00a0 <\/span>It is a sad reminder that, even two thousand
\nyears later, our collective humanity can be quickly erased or forgotten when we
\nend up seeing our fellow beings as less than human because they do not believe
\nwhat we chose, or are told to, believe.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Julian Jaynes traces the
\ndevelopment of consciousness in man through our written works, the oldest ones
\nsuch as the Rigveda from what is now India or the Iliad, from Greece being
\nwritten at a time when the bicameral mind was still the norm among us
\nhumans.\u00a0 <\/span>In these tales, the human
\nprotagonists do not share their internal monologues.\u00a0 <\/span>They had no internal monologues.\u00a0 <\/span>Their actions are not self-decided.\u00a0 <\/span>Instead, all the actions in the Iliad, for
\nexample, are a result of a command or a suggestion by one of the many gods.
\nAchilles does not choose his actions.\u00a0
\n<\/span>They are dictated by the gods.\u00a0 <\/span>The
\nsame holds for the characters in the Rigveda.\u00a0
\n<\/span>Bicameral man did not self-assess, self-doubt, or self-analyze.\u00a0 <\/span>He lived, breathed, and acted in accordance
\nwith the instructions provided him by the gods and spirits, voices we modern
\nhumans would describe as our internal monologue.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>In the follow-up to the
\nIliad, the Odyssey, the protagonists do make their own decisions.\u00a0 <\/span>They worry and fret and flip-flop without any
\ncertainty, something lacking in the heroes of the Iliad.\u00a0 <\/span>They still do not have what we would call a
\nconsciousness, however.\u00a0 <\/span>It is their own
\nconstituent parts that make demands.\u00a0
\n<\/span>Parts of the human, such as phrenes<\/i>, nous<\/i>, and psyche<\/i>,
\nwere the ones dictating action.\u00a0 <\/span>Odysseus\u2019
\nnous<\/i> might demand that he feel jealousy, or his phrenes<\/i> might
\nstate that the gods do not agree.\u00a0
\n<\/span>Ancient man did not think of the brain itself as the seat of our
\nminds.\u00a0 <\/span>They saw different parts suited
\nto different things.\u00a0 <\/span>Sometimes these
\nwould still be associated with specific gods, or spirits, but they were
\ninternal to man, not external.\u00a0 <\/span>Jaynes
\nexplains how today, we judge psychosomatic responses in people that would have
\nbeen very familiar to the people of the Odyssey.\u00a0 <\/span>When we are stressed out, our stomachs feel
\ncurdled, bile rises in our throat, and we get the \u201cbutterflies.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>To ancient man, just developing the faculty
\nof consciousness, this made sense.\u00a0 <\/span>When
\nscared, our heart starts beating faster.\u00a0
\n<\/span>Our blood pressure rises.\u00a0 <\/span>Our
\nskin gets cold and tight.\u00a0 <\/span>Ancient man
\nsaw this as evidence that the heart controlled certain emotions, much as the
\nstomach controlled others, and the bowels controlled even others.\u00a0 <\/span>There is a wide gap between the mentality
\nevident in the Odyssey and the mentality seen in the Iliad.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The second section of
\nthis book details the progression from the Bicameral Mind to our current
\nconsciousness, tracing the history of our gods, temples and rituals associated
\nwith bicameral thinking. Jaynes describes how Mesopotamia was the first example
\nof modern consciousness, something which must have been very strange for those
\nfew humans who innately accepted their internal \u201cI\u201d.\u00a0 <\/span>Even the tales in Genesis describe this
\ntransition from bicameral thinking to our current sense of self.\u00a0 <\/span>The author traces the story from the ancient
\nGreeks down to the nomadic tribes which were prevalent after the mass genocide
\nperiod.\u00a0 <\/span>It was these tribes which
\npracticed a new monotheism, replacing the pantheon of gods with one deity, and
\nwhich led to our current Abrahamic religions and their strict morality, most of
\nwhich is based on refuting the old bicameral gods and our ways of communicating
\nwith them.<\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The last section of this
\nmasterwork seeks out the vestiges of the bicameral mind within our modern
\nworld.\u00a0 <\/span>Humanity went from each one of us
\nhearing the gods\u2019 voices directly, to the gods only speaking to select priests
\nand oracles, and then to the gods becoming totally silent, letting their
\ndesires be known solely through omens, or the revelation of \u201cprophets.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>Julian Jaynes backs up every one of his
\nobservations with rigorous science, and explores the role that our bicameral
\nmind still plays in the creation of poetry, art, and music.\u00a0 <\/span>Many creators describe how a piece of art, or
\nmusic, or poem came to them unbidden, as if the universe was speaking to them
\ndirectly.\u00a0 <\/span>This is an example of how our
\ntwo brains communicate, with one side dominant, and the other not so.\u00a0 <\/span>Jaynes explores hypnosis and the mechanisms
\nused to incite it, mechanisms and techniques extremely similar to those used by
\nancient priests when selecting new oracles.\u00a0
\n<\/span>Basically, the less self-aware you are, the easier it is to be
\nhypnotized.\u00a0 <\/span>The same goes for deeply
\ndevout religious belief.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>This book blew me
\naway.\u00a0 <\/span>I wish I could cover everything
\nthat Julian Jaynes discusses in greater detail, but that would take an entire
\nother book!\u00a0 <\/span>It is a humbling thing to
\nunderstand that our species, Homo Sapiens Sapiens, lived for over a hundred
\nthousand years in the bicameral state.\u00a0
\n<\/span>It is only in the past 2,500 years that what we call human consciousness
\ncame to be.\u00a0 <\/span>There is no guarantee that
\nour individual conscious selves will continue into the future.\u00a0 <\/span>It may be that a bicameral mind is better
\nsuited for long-term survival on Earth, and we will all soon revert back to
\nthat state.\u00a0 <\/span>There are no rules stating
\nthat evolution is a progressive, directional force.\u00a0 <\/span>Animals and plants evolve in all directions,
\nboth \u201cforwards\u201d and \u201cbackwards.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>It is
\nour ego that makes us believe we are the epitome of life, that we are the best
\nliving creature created in our Universe.\u00a0\u00a0
\n<\/span>That very ego may destroy us all.\u00a0
\n<\/span>I look forward to acquiring this book for my own personal library, and
\njumping back into its amazing pages in the future.\u00a0 <\/span>It is books such as this one that made me a
\nbook lover, and keep me a book lover.\u00a0
\n<\/span>What a glorious achievement.<\/span><\/p>\n(This book can be downloaded from the Internet Archive here: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind – Julian Jaynes<\/a> )<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 The Origin of Consciousness In the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind \u2013 Julian Jaynes (1976) \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 For weeks now I have been lost in the pages of this amazing book, one which came to my attention through the bibliographies in several of my previous reads.\u00a0 One of my favorite literary experiences is when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":306525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113389,12121,137277,98637,137278,117202,113390,109960,137279,137280,99544],"tags":[16873,61730,15400,5809,4809],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-306524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ancient-history","category-consciousness","category-cuneiform","category-history","category-julian-jaynes","category-language","category-mesopotamia","category-mind","category-myths","category-neurology","category-neuroscience","tag-blown","tag-jaynes","tag-julian","tag-mind","tag-put"],"yoast_head":"\n
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