“ What was then an augury for direction of action among the ruins of an archaic mentality is now the search for an innocence of certainty among the mythologies of facts. Julian Jaynes
“ As the stag pants after the waterbrooks, So pants my mind after you, O gods! My mind thirsts for gods! for living gods! When shall I come face to face with gods? —Psalm 42 Julian Jaynes
“ Thinking, then, is not conscious. Rather, it is an automatic process following a struction and the materials on which the struction is to operate. Julian Jaynes
“ All of these concrete metaphors increase enormously our powers of perception of the world about us and our understanding of it, and literally create new objects. Indeed, language is an organ of percep… Julian Jaynes
“ We are thus conscious less of the time than we think, because we cannot be conscious of when we are not conscious. Julian Jaynes
“ And as you read, you are not conscious of the letters or even of the words or even of the syntax or the sentences and punctuation, but only of their meaning. As you listen to an address, phonemes disa… Julian Jaynes
“ Alfred Russel Wallace, the codiscoverer of the theory of natural selection. Following their twin announcements of the theory in 1858, both Darwin and Wallace struggled like Laocoöns with the serpentin… Julian Jaynes
“ Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocabulary or lexical field whose terms are all metaphors or analogs of behavior in the physical world…co… Julian Jaynes
