Tanya Luhrmann, the Albert Ray Lang Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University, discusses Julian Jaynes's theory of consciousness and bicameral mentality.
Read the entire fascinating discussion "Hearing Voices, Sensed Presences, and Imagined 'Others'," as well as many other interviews on Jaynes's theory, in "Conversations on Consciousness and the Bicameral Mind: Interviews with Leading Thinkers on Julian Jaynes's Theory," the latest book from the Julian Jaynes Society:
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Tanya Luhrmann - Hearing Voices, Sensed Presences, and Imagined "Others"
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