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The problem is a peculiarly difficult one that the U.S. political system and the American temperament are not well tuned to solve. Since the birth of the nation, energy and the United States have been almost synonymous terms: metaphorically, in the boundless vitality of the American people; literally, in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICY: SUPERBRAIN'S SUPERPROBLEM | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

Jaynes thinks that man developed the inner voices to solve problems. Without consciousness, he was guided mostly by habit. Thus new situations produced stress, which resulted in unconscious decisions in the form of inner, audible commands. These voices-a side effect of language and a primitive form of will-enabled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Lost Voices of the Gods | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

In some of these later writings, Jaynes finds laments for the lost bicameral world. He notes that the Odyssey, probably coming at least 100 years after the Iliad, features "the wily Odysseus, the first modern hero, picking his way through a ruined and god-weakened world." In Hindu literature, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Lost Voices of the Gods | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

Though subdued, the voices of the right side of the brain still occasionally break through as, for example, the voices of Joan of Arc, some drug hallucinations and schizophrenia. Psychiatrists, says Jaynes, "seem to like my theory. They are literate men, and many of them say they sense something archaic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Lost Voices of the Gods | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

The woman is enough to make readers think that sex really is dirty. She describes remarkably unpleasant oral activities with her female lover; if a man had written that, feminists would have beaten him unconscious with a copy of The Hite Report. The heroine is forever masturbating. Sex is often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Oral History | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

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