For any interested...

Gene Wolfe's novel entitled Soldier of the Mist (Tor Books, 1987 and still in print) is the story of Latro, a soldier living in ancient Greece, whose characterization offers a superb example of a person living on the cusp of bicamerality and modern mentality, as well as of the ...

Interesting, Clare. I do believe that I'll buy Ratha's stories for my daughter. Well, okay, I admit that I want to read them, too. ;)

I also incorporated Jaynesian theory into a novel (psychological fiction), but I'm just now preparing to solicit agents. I wrote as a psychologist, however, to ...

Lucid dreams, too, are a peculiar state of both consciousness and unconsciousness, and the notions of self-awareness and intention are inherent in the picture. So I wonder, how might the brain imaging of this woman compare, if at all, to that of a lucid dreamer? Or have I completely missed the mark ...

Eventually, with only a few remaining semi-bicameral "prophets" still directly experiencing "the gods," the notion of only one "true" god was born, and then heavily promoted by figures such as Jesus, whose teachings were an attempt to shift religious thinking from the outmoded bicameral system of ...

You might also read a description of the "Baldwin effect" (that over time learned behaviors can become instinctual through selection) which is somewhat related to Jaynes's notion of aptic structures.

Thanks for your help. And I did do a bit of reading on The Baldwin Effect.

Should any other ...

Hi, all.

Tucked away in a footnote in Origins is a reference to "aptic structures." Would someone please define this term for me as Jaynes intended it? And it's best to dumb it down since I'm no scientist. :wink: I'd appreciate hearing any comments, too, as to how these aptic structures may or may ...