^Julian Jaynes wrote an enormously entertaining book in 1976 without a single reference on brain biology past something like 1963. And we’ve learned more about the brain in the past 30 years than in the last 300. Possibly the last 3000.
I have the book on my shelf; I enjoyed it in college. Some of his ideas of brain organization have actually proven out since. But I am exceedingly skeptical of his view of history.
I rather wish he had managed to finish the second book – the one that was supposed to have the research rather than the speculation and storytelling – that he promised in the book.
For the record, he died in 1997, so he had two decades to deliver.
^Julian Jaynes wrote an enormously entertaining book in 1976 without a single reference on brain biology past something like 1963. And we’ve learned more about the brain in the past 30 years than in the last 300. Possibly the last 3000. I have the book on my shelf; I enjoyed it in college. Some of his ideas of brain organization have actually proven out since. But I am exceedingly skeptical of his view of history. I rather wish he had managed to finish the second book – the one that was supposed to have the research rather than the speculation and storytelling – that he promised in the book. For the record, he died in 1997, so he had two decades to deliver.