How long does it take to read The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind?
Julian Jaynes
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes takes about 8 hours 56 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 56 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1976. 487 pages, about 133,925 words.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 53 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 56 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 35 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion -- and indeed our future.
Subjects: Consciousness, History, Civilization, Conscience, Bewustzijn, Histoire
