History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.
Julian JaynesI shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.
Julian JaynesThe language of men was involved with only one hemisphere in order to leave the other free for the language of the gods.
Julian JaynesConscious 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.
Julian Jaynes