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From: cjh@petsd.UUCP (Chris Henrich)
Newsgroups: net.bio
Subject: Re: Left and Right Brain (Bicameral Mind)
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Date: Tue, 23-Apr-85 13:45:44 EST
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	In the referenced article, Jim Gardner writes:
> ...  For those with
> more outre tastes, you might check out The Origin of Consciousness
> in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes.  Jaynes has
> an interesting theory about what the right brain used to do while the
> left brain was busy talking.

I read Jaynes's book and found it interesting, but *very*
unconvincing.  He seems to be of two minds (ooops) about the
nature of the "breakdown" - did the "right" brain get pushed
aside altogether, or does it now co-ordinate its functions
with the "left" brain so well that normally the difference is
imperceptible?  And he is quite incoherent about the causes of
the change.  

It was a decent science-fiction idea, and somebody used it
recently in _Analog_.

Regards,
Chris

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