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Is it something big? Academics who have read the book are divided in their reactions. Berkeley Psychologist Frank Beach calls it "highly original, provocative and stimulating." Northwestern University Psychologist Carl Duncan is caustic: "Jaynes is extremely clever to think up this thing. I only wish he would put that cleverness...
But so far the most common academic reaction is an indignant question: Who is Julian Jaynes? Answer: an unorthodox and little-known psychologist, noticed mostly for an unconventional theory on the origins of language.
The son of a Unitarian minister, Jaynes grew up in West Newton, Mass., the site of his encounter with the forsythia. To pursue the problem of consciousness, he studied philosophy, then switched to psychology because philosophers did not seem to have the answer. As a graduate student in psychology at...
Jaynes, who is single, spends his spare time hiking and taking trips to lecture on consciousness. He is hardly a major star on campus. In fact, after 19 years of teaching at Yale and Princeton, Jaynes holds the humble title of lecturer, largely, he says, because of his indifference to...
Jaynes thinks the bicameral mind is a reality, and could be reawakened in special cases if anyone cared to. Says he: "If you took a young child with a family history of schizophrenia (in other words, the right chemical trigger) and if that child also had an imaginary playmate-a...