“ Osiris, to go directly to the important part of this, was not a dying god, not life caught in the spell of death, or a dead god, as modern interpreters have said. He was the hallucinated voice of a de… Julian Jaynes
“ We sometimes think, and even like to think, that the two greatest exertions that have influenced mankind, religion and science, have always been historical enemies, intriguing us in opposite direction… Julian Jaynes
“ Signal learning (or classical or conditioning) is the simplest example [of learning without consciousness]. If a light signal immediately followed by a puff of air through a rubber tube is directed a… Julian Jaynes
“ Logic is the science of the justification of conclusions we have reached by natural reasoning. My point is that, for such natural reasoning to occur, consciousness is not necessary. The very reason we… Julian Jaynes
“ Consciousness is a much smaller part of our mental life than we are conscious of, because we cannot be conscious of what we are not conscious of. How simple that is to say; how difficult to appreciate… Julian Jaynes
“ Indeed I have begun in this fashion, and place great importance on this opening chapter, for unless you are here convinced that a civilization without consciousness is possible, you will find the disc… Julian Jaynes
“ CIVILIZATION is the art of living in towns of such size that everyone does not know everyone else. Julian Jaynes
“ Courtiers in some of their inscriptions referring to the king say, I did what his ka loved or I did that which his ka approved, Julian Jaynes
“ The intellectual life of man, his culture and history and religion and science, is different from anything else we know of in the universe. That is fact. Julian Jaynes
“ O, what a world of unseen visions and heard silences, this insubstantial country of the mind! What ineffable essences, these touchless rememberings and unshowable reveries! And the privacy of it all!… Julian Jaynes
“ And why are we least conscious when doing something most habitual? Certainly this seesawing relationship between consciousness and actions is something that any theory of consciousness must explain. Julian Jaynes
“ He felt the evidence showed that some metaphysical force had directed evolution at three different points: the beginning of life, the beginning of consciousness, and the beginning of civilized culture… Julian Jaynes
“ Consciousness is a much smaller part of our mental life than we are conscious of, because we cannot be conscious of what we are not conscious of. Julian Jaynes
“ Words have meaning, not life or persons or the universe itself, he said. Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Bey… Julian Jaynes
“ The lexicon of language, then, is a finite set of terms that by metaphor is able to stretch out over an infinite set of circumstances, even to creating new circumstances thereby. Julian Jaynes
“ Our sense of justice depends on our sense of time. Justice is a phenomenon only of consciousness, because time spread out in a spatial succession is its very essence. And this is possible only in a sp… Julian Jaynes
