Re: Homer’s vocabulary not including mental terms: this is one of the things that Julian Jaynes points to as evidence of his “bicameral mind”. Do you happen to know whether the book you read has any connection to Jaynes’ work?
The book that I read is mostly an introduction into neuroscience that says a bunch of things everyone is supposed to know and illustrates it with pretty pictures. It begins like a lot of textbooks with talking about the history of the subject. It’s not the kind of book who tries to say something new.
Julian Jaynes isn’t referenced. But the book is from a given that Jayne is widely read I think there a good chance that a Cognitive Psychology professor like Gellatly read him.
In general reading on Wikipedia that Jaynes influenced Daniel Dennett is funny when Dannett says things like that consciousness doesn’t exist or is a lie that the brain tells itself.
The thing that Jaynes calls consciousness might be called ‘ego’ by a Buddhist who wants to transcend it to reach a state of higher consciousness.
Re: Homer’s vocabulary not including mental terms: this is one of the things that Julian Jaynes points to as evidence of his “bicameral mind”. Do you happen to know whether the book you read has any connection to Jaynes’ work?
The book that I read is mostly an introduction into neuroscience that says a bunch of things everyone is supposed to know and illustrates it with pretty pictures. It begins like a lot of textbooks with talking about the history of the subject. It’s not the kind of book who tries to say something new.
Julian Jaynes isn’t referenced. But the book is from a given that Jayne is widely read I think there a good chance that a Cognitive Psychology professor like Gellatly read him.
In general reading on Wikipedia that Jaynes influenced Daniel Dennett is funny when Dannett says things like that consciousness doesn’t exist or is a lie that the brain tells itself. The thing that Jaynes calls consciousness might be called ‘ego’ by a Buddhist who wants to transcend it to reach a state of higher consciousness.