"Consciousness is a cultural development based on metaphorical language that occurred 3,000 years ago. Prior to the development of consciousness, humans operated under a different mentality Jaynes calls "the bicameral mind." Jaynes argues that vestiges of the bicameral mind are still prevalent throughout the modern world."
Introduction -- Book I The Mind of Man - 1. The Consciousness of Consciousness - 2. Consciousness - 3. The Mind of Iliad - 4. The Bicameral Mind - 5. The Double Brain - 6. The Origin of Civilization -- Book II The Witness of History - 1. Gods, Graves, and Idols - 2. Literate Bicameral Theocracies - 3. The Causes of Consciousness - 4. A Change of Mind in Mesopotamia - 5. The Intellectual Consciousness of Greece - 6. The Moral Consciousness of the Khabiru -- Book III Vestiges of the Bicameral Mind in the Modern World - 1. The Quest for Authorization - 2. Of prophets and Possession - 3. Of Poetry and Music - 4. Hypnosis - 5. Schizophrenia - 6. The Auguries of Science -- AFTERWORD.
