Julian Jaynes Quotes
- “What is the meaning of life?” This question has no answer except in the history of how it came to be asked. There is no answer because words have meaning, not life or persons or the universe itself. Our search for certainty rests in our attempts at understanding the history of all individual selves and all civilizations. Beyond that, there is only awe. - View Quote Details on “What is the meaning of life?” This question has no…
- Poetry, from describing external events objectively, is becoming subjectified into a poetry of personal conscious expression. - View Quote Details on Poetry, from describing external events objectively, is becoming subjectified into…
- 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. - View Quote Details on Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called…
- We have said that consciousness is an operation rather than a thing, a repository, or a function. It operates by way of analogy, by way of constructing an analog space with an analog ‘I’, that can observe that space, and move metaphorically in it. It operates on any reactivity, excerpts relevant aspects, narratizes and conciliates them together in a metaphorical space where such meanings can be manipulated like things in space. - View Quote Details on We have said that consciousness is an operation rather than…
- Consciousness is a much smaller part of mental life than we are conscious of, since we cannot be conscious of what we aren’t conscious of. - View Quote Details on Consciousness is a much smaller part of mental life than…
- Conscious mind is a spatial analog of the world and mental acts are analogs of bodily acts. Consciousness operates only on objectively observable things. Or, to say it another way with echoes of John Locke, there is nothing in consciousness that is not an analog of something that was in behavior first. - View Quote Details on Conscious mind is a spatial analog of the world and…
About Julian Jaynes
Julian Jaynes (27 February 1920 – 21 November 1997 ) was an American psychologist, best known for his book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976) .
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