The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes

Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read a very entertaining tract about consciousness, hallucinations, poetry, religion and a crackpot theory that ties them all together - in short, what you expected to read in college as a liberal arts major. It's Julian Jayne's magnum opus - The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.

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Stuff we Mentioned

• The YouTube video that explains this book much better than we can

• Moon a movie by Duncan Jones (Bowie's son!)

• The Boorish Manners of a Yalie

• The new translation of the Odyssey

• David Bowie - A Life

• Snow Crash

• AI Is Changing Our Brains

• Consciousness Began When the Gods Stopped Speaking

• Vince Taylor

• Behold a Pale Horse

• Chariot of the Gods

• Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

• Phineas Gage - I couldn't find links to the Seattle band!

• Podcon - if you're in Seattle and going to this, let's meet up!

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