Julian Jaynes

“Consciousness,” - Jaynes tells readers, in a passage that can be seen as a challenge to future students of philosophy and cognitive science, - “is a much smaller part of our mental life than we are conscious of, because we cannot be conscious of what we are not conscious of.” - Consciousness Began When the Gods Stopped Speaking

Julian Jaynes
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind [pdf]

The Helpless Spectator Theory [см. также пассажир мозга]

In reaction to such metaphysical speculations, there grew up through this early period of evolutionary thinking an increasingly materialist view. It was a position more consistent with straight natural selection. It even had inherent in it that acrid pessimism that is sometimes curiously associated with really hard science. This doctrine assures us consciousness does nothing at all, and in fact can do nothing. - pg 10

The function of meter in poetry is to drive the electrical activity of the brain, and most certainly to relax the normal emotional inhibitions of both chanter and listener - pg 74

от себя добавлю: сознание - это другие. consciousness is others. не зря conscience и consciousness так похожи. compare Sartre: “There’s no need for red-hot pokers. HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE!”