{"id":9647,"date":"2025-10-31T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=9647"},"modified":"2025-05-24T16:32:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T16:32:57","slug":"this-blog-examines-a-complex-book-on-a-civilizational-change-in-human-psychology-in-our-current-lebenswelt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=9647","title":{"rendered":"A First Look at Julian Jaynes&#8217;s Book (1976) &#8220;The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind&#8221; (Part 1 of 21)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0236 Why do I examine this work?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I reviewed Steven Mithen&#8217;s book,&nbsp;<em>The Language Puzzle: Piecing Together The Six-Million-Year Story Of How Words Evolved<\/em>&nbsp;(2024, Basic Books, New York).&nbsp;&nbsp;See Razie Mah&#8217;s blog for September 2025.&nbsp;&nbsp;The examination concludes on point 0235.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the examination, I recall a book that Julian Jaynes publishes in 1976.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wonder, &#8220;Why does Mithen&#8217;s book remind me of Jaynes?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I now have a copy of&nbsp;<em>The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind&nbsp;<\/em>(First Mariner edition (2000), New York, New York) before me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This explains why I start the current examination on point 0236.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0237 Julian Jaynes (1920-1997 AD) earned master and doctoral degrees in psychology at Yale University.&nbsp;&nbsp;He lectured in psychology at Princeton from 1966 to 1990.&nbsp;&nbsp;In 1990, he writes&nbsp;<em>a postscript<\/em>&nbsp;that appears in&nbsp;<em>the Mariner edition<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This afterward<\/em>&nbsp;lists&nbsp;<em>the four hypotheses<\/em>&nbsp;in Books I and II.&nbsp;&nbsp;Plus, the postscript expands on Part III, by discussing&nbsp;<em>the psychological transition from the bicameral mind to subjective consciousness<\/em>&nbsp;at the end of the Bronze Age in the Near East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0238 Here is the list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide01-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide01-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide01-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide01-1-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0239 So, why does Mithen&#8217;s book remind me of Jaynes&#8217;s work?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My review of&nbsp;<em>The Language Puzzle<\/em>&nbsp;led me to conclude that&nbsp;<em>Mithen&#8217;s explicit rejection of a gestural origin of language<\/em>prevents him from realizing that&nbsp;<em>his information<\/em>&nbsp;implicitly supports&nbsp;<em>the very position that um&#8230; he rejects<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, if I ignore&nbsp;<em>his declaration against a gestural origin to language,<\/em>&nbsp;then I can start to recognize that speech is added to&nbsp;<em>fully linguistic hand-talk<\/em>&nbsp;after&nbsp;<em>the domestication of fire,<\/em>&nbsp;when&nbsp;<em>the community&nbsp;<\/em>becomes<em>&nbsp;a social circle&nbsp;<\/em>under pressure from<em>&nbsp;natural selection<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0240 That reminds me of&nbsp;<em>a curious pun<\/em>&nbsp;that seems to have&nbsp;<em>import in the year 2025AD<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Russian word for &#8220;no&#8221; is &#8220;nyet&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To the American ear, &#8220;nyet&#8221; sounds like &#8220;not yet&#8221;.&nbsp;&nbsp;And, that means, &#8220;Yes, but not now.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, when Mithen says, &#8220;nyet&#8221;, to the gestural origins of language, his English speaking bicameral mind hears, &#8220;not yet&#8221;.&nbsp;&nbsp;So, Mithen unwittingly drops clues to&nbsp;<em>his nyet hypothesis<\/em>&nbsp;within his own&nbsp;<em>subjectively conscious argument<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;These hints offer a weird twist to&nbsp;<em>Looking at Steven Mithen&#8217;s Book (2024) The Language Puzzle<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is as if&nbsp;<em>Mithen&#8217;s own bicameral mind<\/em>&nbsp;offers &#8211; what I will call &#8211; &#8220;a nyet hypothesis&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0241 Now, consider the first two hypothesis (A and B) in Jaynes&#8217;s Books I and II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First (A), subjective consciousness relies on spoken language.&nbsp;&nbsp;Mithen consciously proposes that spoken words are built over millions of years through synaesthesia, cross modal &#8220;leakage&#8221; of sensations, from&nbsp;<em>visual things and events<\/em>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<em>auditory vocalizations<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0242 Of course, this proposal comes across as sketchy.&nbsp;&nbsp;Why would early hominins, such as the australopithecines and the early species in the&nbsp;<em>Homo<\/em>&nbsp;genus (3.5 to 0.6Myr &#8211; millions of years ago) do this?&nbsp;&nbsp;And how?&nbsp;&nbsp;The voice is most likely not under voluntary control.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Involuntary calls<\/em>&nbsp;rule the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But,&nbsp;<em>the vocal tract&nbsp;<\/em>changes over time.&nbsp;&nbsp;Most likely, the voice is on&nbsp;<em>the verge of coming under voluntary control<\/em>&nbsp;by the time that&nbsp;<em>Homo heidelbergensis<\/em>&nbsp;appears in the fossil record (perhaps, over 600kyr &#8211; thousands of years ago).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On top of that,&nbsp;<em>Homo heidelbergensis<\/em>&nbsp;shows up during the period when hominins domesticate fire (800-400kyr).&nbsp;&nbsp;So, Mithen consciously and cautiously suggests that&nbsp;<em>the synaesthesia business<\/em>&nbsp;really takes off around that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0243 The&nbsp;<em>nyet hypothesis?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, of course,&nbsp;<em>proto-linguistic hand talk<\/em>&nbsp;has plenty of time to evolve without cross-modal leakage during&nbsp;<em>the early period<\/em>&nbsp;(3.5 to 0.6Myr) and even has&nbsp;<em>a couple of hundred-thousand years<\/em>&nbsp;to become&nbsp;<em>fully linguistic<\/em>&nbsp;after hominins start to play with fire (0.8 to 0.6My).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So,&nbsp;<em>synaesthesia<\/em>&nbsp;would not make a jump from&nbsp;<em>things themselves<\/em>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<em>vocal utterances,<\/em>&nbsp;but from&nbsp;<em>manual-brachial word-gestures<\/em>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<em>vocal utterances<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suddenly,&nbsp;<em>synaesthesia<\/em>&nbsp;no longer seems&nbsp;<em>implausible<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0244 Second (B), compare&nbsp;<em>Mithen&#8217;s nyet hypothesis<\/em>&nbsp;with&nbsp;<em>Jaynes&#8217;s proposal of the bicameral mind<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide02-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide02-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide02-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Slide02-1-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To me,\u00a0<em>the idea that manual-brachial word-gestures provide stimuli allowing synaesthetic crossover from visual to auditory sensations<\/em>\u00a0seems like\u00a0<em>&#8220;auditory hallucinations&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0245 My goal in this first examination is to develop this impression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0236 Why do I examine this work? 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