Poetry, from describing external events objectively, is becoming subjectified into a poetry of personal conscious expression.
Julian JaynesThe very reason we need logic at all is because most reasoning is not conscious at all.
Julian JaynesI shall state my thesis plain. The first poets were gods. Poetry began with the bicameral mind.
Julian JaynesOur 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 spatial metaphor of time.
Julian Jaynes