Marcel Kuijsten is Founder and Executive Director of the Julian Jaynes Society. He has designed, edited, and published four books: "Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind"; "Gods, Voices, and the Bicameral Mind"; "The Julian Jaynes Collection"; and "Reflections on the Dawn of Consciousness", and is co-editor of "The Jaynesian," the newsletter of the Julian Jaynes Society.
"... A marvel of collective scholarship across multiple
disciplines. ... In this book, you will hear the voices of the most
open-minded scholars of our generation." - William R. Woodward,
Professor of Psychology, University of New Hampshire, and author of
Hermann Lotze: An Intellectual Biography
"Rich with ideas and fertile speculations, this outstanding
collection of expert interviews advances the revolutionary work of
the psychologist Julian Jaynes." - Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize
Laureate for The Making of the Atomic Bomb
"Julian Jaynes was my teacher [at Princeton]. ... Much
psychological science since then points to the possibility that he
was right. Right about consciousness, right about ancient history,
right about evolution, right about language, even right about
Homer. This volume begins to close the gap, bringing Jaynes's
brilliance to the attention and appreciation of the contemporary
public." - Martin Seligman, Professor of Psychology, University of
Pennsylvania, and author of The Hope Circuit
"I read Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind ...
with great delight. ... The material in Conversations is rich in
detail and a great way to assist people to understand better each
of [Jaynes'] core elements of theorising. The interviewers show
great patience and a depth of understanding of the issues in play,
and the interviewees demonstrate the abundance of research that has
taken place over the last four decades that corroborate and refine
Jaynes' early insights. ... We are greatly indebted to Julian
Jaynes' insights ... and to Marcel Kuijsten for these interviews
that demonstrate so well how alive, rich and extensive is the field
opened up by Jaynes."- Dr. Louis Arnoux, Managing Director, Fourth
Transition Ltd.
"... It is time for a new generation of ... deep thinkers at the
heart of every discipline to rediscover Julian Jaynes's tantalizing
hypotheses concerning the origin and nature of human consciousness.
This collection of interviews ... will enable contemporary readers
to understand why Jaynes's style of inquiry remains as captivating
and compelling as ever - and as provocative and controversial.
Reader: take the plunge, and join the conversation!" - Christian Y.
Dupont, Ph.D., Associate University Librarian for Collections and
Burns Librarian, Boston College, and author of Phenomenology in
French Philosophy: Early Encounters
"... Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind helps
us understand humanity's development of consciousness over
millennia, as well as how we learn it in our first years of life."
- Loretta Graziano Breuning, Ph.D., author of Habits of a Happy
Brain
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