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This paper aims to search for the origin of the consciousness by introducing Julian Jaynes' work, The Origin of the Consciousness in the breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. According to Jaynes, consciousness as a social construction was learned only after the breakdown of the bicameral mind during the era when verbal language occurred but yet written language didn't come. The bicameral mind was composed of the right cerebral hemisphere giving hearing voices, and the left cerebral hemisphere interpreting and following them. It was developed as a form of social control, enabling ancient cultures such as Mesopotamia, Inca and Mycenae to flourish. One of the most important literary evidences of the bicameral mind is Iliad. Iliad''s heroes had no consciousness, so that they lacked introspection and consideration like zombies. They experienced verbal hallucinations, and made them their actions' guides. Meanwhile, Odyssey is recording the growth of subjective consciousness of Odysseus resisting against gods' hearing voices and making his own choices. Jaynes' theory is very important because it bridges between the period of non-consciousness and of the consciousness in ontogeny as well as phylogeny.
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the origin of consciousness, bicameral mind, Julian Jaynes, Iliad, Odyssey
