15.09.09
Bennett’s book little known
James’ comment actually referred to Bennett, not Julian Jaynes (whose theory I find problematical).
James said,
11.09.09 at 4:22 pm ·
It is strange that few people have heard of this book. Despite a lot of the dubious speculations, it makes mainstream speculations from Dennett, Searle, etc. look like kid’s play. It’s disconcerting to think how easy it is to be subversive to Big Science’s worldview and yet none of its groupies seem to realize how vulnerable they really are.
It is a brilliant book, marred by some compromises with Gurdjieffianity, and some excessive bending of categories past the point of science.
One thing to keep in mind is the censorship of a Darwin critic, and/or New Age thinker. But, sadly, it is also true that the Gurdjieff world destroys all its creative types, a kind of built in negation of disciples.
Moral: don’t be a disciple! Gurdjieff et al. will destroy your creativity and all your projects, a kind of guru jealousy and super authoritarianism.