Jaynes Questions
Do you buy Jaynes's models - why & why not
- radically different configuration of mind
- human being without consciousness
- god side and man side
- development of language, its relationship to metaphor
- development of consciousness via metaphor
What are some of the implications of his models?
Introductory Lecture
What the frog's eye tells the frog's brain.
Note Taking Algorithm with recursion
- What is the thesis of whole (book, chapter, article etc.).
- List sub sections
- For each sub section
- what argument is the author making?
- what is the supporting evidence?
- Does the whole do what it sets out to do?
- Larger context
- where do you disagree?
- what is your supporting evidence
Method for establishing the items above
- For each sentence ask,
- "What is the point of this sentence?"
- For example, its an argument, background info, evidence, filler, fluff, repetitious, reiteration
Class methodology
- Rounds of discussion following the structure above
Other Sources
- Blackmore, S. (2004). Consciousness: An introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press - for a review of thought on nature of consciousness