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At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is
...(more) still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion -- and indeed our future.(less)
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Jaynes' theory about the origin of consciousness is a radical one that no reader can help but become entranced by, however in order to present his theory, Jaynes must first explain the metaphorical nature of human consciousness. He does so in the first few chapters, and it's absolutely genius.