The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral

At the heart of this book is the revolutionary idea that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution. Rather, Jaynes presents consciousness as a learned process that evolved from an earlier hallucinatory mentality only three thousand years ago. The implications extend into every aspect if human life. 

Author: Julian Jaynes

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin

Released Date: 1990

ISBN: 0395563526