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The Origin of Consciousness

512 pages · 2000 · Rating 4.7

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At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jayness 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.

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