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CNY Humanists Book Club: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

  • Cafe at 407 407 Tulip Street Liverpool, NY, 13088 United States (map)
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Our next selection is The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes.


Please join us for refreshments and friendly conversation - even if you haven't read the book! We'll meet in the Community Room at Cafe at 407 at 407 Tulip Street, Liverpool on Sunday, September 24th from 10:00 - 11:30 am. Hope to see you there!

**Renting the Community Room at Cafe at 407 does cost us some money each book club. Donations are appreciated - thank you!

About the Book:

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 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.