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Comment author: false_vacuum 26 September 2010 02:25:39PM 0 points [-]

Jaynes is first mentioned on p. 221 of Consciousness Explained, and I haven't got that far yet. I'm really rather perplexed about this; I have a distinct memory of reading about Jaynes' bicameral mind, in some detail, in something by Dennett (around the same time I was reading Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash, oddly enough--which was late last fall, I think). The slight reference in DDI that I can find almost certainly wouldn't have been enough to prompt me to look it up (although I looked up and learned about a lot of things as a result of reading that book).

Comment author: ciphergoth 26 September 2010 04:13:30PM 0 points [-]

Jaynes also gets a mention in Breaking the Spell.