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John D. Mayer is Professor of Psychology at the University of New Hampshire and the author of numerous scientific articles, books, and psychological tests. See full bio

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The Emergence of Self-Reflection during the Great Transformation (Axial Age)

By John D. Mayer, Ph.D. on June 22, 2009 in The Personality Analyst

Consciousness as we know it today -- reflective, rich, personal -- may not have been fully developed until the Great Transformation (Axial age; 1000 BCE - 200 BCE). The philosopher Daniel Dennett suggests that if we want to understand what happened then we may have to radically stretch our imagination, and we could be wrong... Read More

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