Peter Watts is certainly aware of Julian Jaynes work http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=104 http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=104 and the sequal to Blindsight seems

Peter Watts is certainly aware of Julian Jaynes work http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=104 http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=104 and the sequal to Blindsight seems to be more specifically about this: http://www.rifters.com/echopraxia/enemywithin.htm http://www.rifters.com/echopraxia/enemywithin.htm which has probably generated interest in Julian Jaynes and so I suspect Echopraxia is partially responsible for the commissioning of the submitted article.