Consciousness
"O, what a world of unseen visions and heard silences, this insubstantial country of the mind! What ineffable essences, these touchless rememberings and unshowable reveries! And the privacy of it all! A secret theater of speechless monologue and prevenient counsel, an invisible mansion of all moods, musings, and mysteries, an infinite resort of disappointments and discoveries. A whole kingdom where each of us reigns reclusively alone, questioning what we will, commanding what we can. A hidden hermitage where we may study out the troubled book of what we have done and yet may do. An introcosm that is more myself than anything I can find in a mirror. This consciousness that is myself of selves, that is everything, and yet is nothing at all - what is it?
And where did it come from?
And why?"
- excerpt from the introduction to Julian Jaynes'
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
posted by Indigobusiness @ Tuesday, February 17, 2009
3 Comments
3 Comments:
Definitely on my list. Hope B&N has a copy, otherwise it may not get here from Amazon by the weekend.
Hey, have you ever read Emmanuels Book?
Very interesting theory. Threw me in a maze of info! :)
Thanks for the tip, Joe, looks interesting.
Paulista- This book rocked my world, much of my college work revolved around it. You'd probably get a lot of mileage out of it.
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