书名：The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind二分心智的崩塌人类意识的起源

作者：Julian Jaynes

出版社名称：Mariner Books

出版时间：2000

语种：英语 

ISBN：9780618057078

商品尺寸：15.2 x 3.2 x 22.9 cm

包装：平装

页数：512（以实物为准）

综合心理学、人类学、考古学等领域的相关知识，美国心理学家朱利安·杰恩斯用诗一般优美的语言描绘了其有关人类意识起源的惊人设想。

杰恩斯在书中性地宣称：意识并非植根于人类大脑的生物现象，而是某种文化派生物，其发生与发展的决定性因素是语言体系的成熟。直到公元前2000年左右，伴随范围内大规模的灾变、战争和迁徙，意识才首度从一直以来回响在人们脑海中的，由神谕、王命与先知织就的“噪声背景”中分离出来。

对《伊利亚特》等典籍早期文本的解读、对世界各地考古学、人类学证据的集中展示，以及对经典实验研究相关结论的创造性分析，赋予了这部不朽之作某种震撼人心的力量。围绕该书的激烈争论自其诞生伊始延续至今，影响遍及心理学、语言学、人类学、认知科学乃至哲学等学科范畴，并为人工智能等前沿领域的研究提供了越来越丰富的启迪。该书于1978年曾获美国国家图书奖提名，知名历史学家理查德·罗德斯（Richard Rhodes）更将朱利安·杰恩斯誉为意识研究领域的查尔斯·达尔文和阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦。

At the heart of this book is the revolutionary idea thathuman consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolutionbut isa learned process brought into being out of an earlier hallucinatory mentality by cataclysm and catastropheonly 3,000 years ago and still developing. The implications of this new scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion - and indeed, our future.

Presents a theory of the bicameral mind which holds that ancient peoples could not "think" as we do today and were therefore "unconscious," a result of the domination of the right hemisphere; only catastrophe forced mankind to "learn" consciousness, a product of human history and culture and one that issues from the brain's left hemisphere.Three forms of human awareness,the bicameralor god-run man; the modern or problem-solving man; and contemporary forms of throwbacks to bicamerality (e.g., religious frenzy, hypnotism, and schizophrenia) are examined in terms of the physiology of the brain and how it applies to human psychology, culture, and history.

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