We can only know in the nervous system what we have known in behavior first. - Julian Jaynes

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We can only know in the nervous system what we have known in behavior first.

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About Julian Jaynes

Julian Jaynes (27 February 1920 – 21 November 1997) was an American psychologist, best known for his book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976), in which he argued that ancient peoples were not conscious.

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