Random thoughts on Reflections on the Dawn of Consciousness

I’ve just finished Reflections and find it of uniformly high quality. Some months ago, when first having read Jaynes’s book, I was intrigued by the originality and coherence of his theory. I wasn’t prepared to accept it as more than ...

I am a neurologist, recently retired after 30 years of clinical practice and teaching. Despite my interest in cognition and memory, Jaynes' work was unknown to me. He is accorded 1 1/2 pages of mention in Richard Dawkin's book The God Delusion . Dawkins is a fine evolutionary biologist, but like ...