The Quest for Jaynes’s Unpublished Writings

Marcel Kuijsten, The Jaynesian, 2014, 2, 1.

Excerpt: Since forming the Julian Jaynes Society in late 1997, the status of Jaynes’s unpublished writings has by far been the most frequent topic of inquiry in e-mails I receive. Indeed, locating Jaynes’s unpublished writings and having them published posthumously was one of my early goals when forming the Society. Based on statements made by Jaynes, like many others I believed that a near-completed manuscript of The Consequences of Consciousness was in existence. …