A Jaynesian understanding of consciousness and its implications for rhetoric also helps explain the deep distrust of rhetoric that emerges at the same time rhetoric itself does. From the first writing...
Completely unrecognized is the whole presumption of this saying according to which individual body parts could possess independent volition and as such can inform (sway/direct) the acting of the whole...
Less than a decade later there was experimental support for the right hemispheric involvement of intrusive experiences into awareness. Although imaging technology has shown us that the cerebral volume...
There is no distinction made by the child between subject, action, and object because for him they are effectively all the same — he is the locus of the action, both its subject and its object at once...
What triggered these hallucinations? I suggest it was even the slight stress of making a decision in a novel circumstance, whereas in ourselves in modern times the stress threshold for such triggering...