[stylist] writing outside our experience

[Chris Kuell]

Chris,

I haven't heard of that book, and probably wouldn't read it unless like you,
I was using it as research for a book. Are his arguments persuasive? I guess
I've always imagined that humans have always had a conscience, if a little
underdeveloped in politicians and corporate giants. Smile.

Even in early humans, I imagine them sort of like animals of today, with
their survival instinct being the strongest emotional control they had. And
yet, animals have consciousness to varying degrees. Any cat or dog owner
will tell you that, and there is plenty of documented conscious behavior in
the animal kingdom. Elephants mourning for their dead; whales crying out for
a lost baby; species raising the young of other species.

I guess I'd recommend you absorb what you can, and just write. In this
latest discussion, I can't say it's something I struggle with as a fiction
writer. If I can make you believe it, it's true. Or, true enough.

chris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christine Malec" <christine.malec at gmail.com>
To: <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2013 2:43 PM
Subject: [stylist] writing outside our experience


> Bridget's remarks made me want to ask if anyone has read Julian Jaynes's
> Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. I'm
> reading
> it because I'm writing fiction set about 7000 years ago. He believes
> consciousness is a more recent development than that, and I've been trying
> to think about how I might choose to incorporate  his ideas into my
> characters. It's a challenge.
> Cheers,
> Chris.
>
>
>
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