Science & Consciousness Review (www.sci-con.org) has released new articles and reviews: _______________________ BOOK REVIEW Science and the Ayahuasca A book review of Benny Shanon's "The antipodes of mind" - by Bernard J. Baars “And lastly, before leaving the village, I drank one cup alone. I was sitting on a balcony overlooking a garden. As the brew was having its effect, I started to sing. What poured out of my mouth was a biblical text --- the beginning of the book of Genesis. I chanted, in Hebrew, the creation of the world. And as I did so, the world was being created in front of my eyes: there was water, and then land surfaced, and trees came out of the earth and flowered, and then the world was populated with birds. I stopped there, before the creation of animals.” Full text: http://www.sci-con.org/reviews/20030601.html _______________________ LATEST HEADLINES - New books from the MIT Press on consciousness related issues: - Animal Consciousness as a Test Case of Cognitive Science - Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences - Volume 2, 1, 2003 - Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Vol. 15, Issue 4 - May 2003 See NEWS IN BRIEF at: http://sci-con.org/more_news.html _______________________ PREVIOUS ARTICLES Workshops and seminars: * Crick and Koch's Framework for Consciousness http://www.sci-con.org/ww_framework.html * What the IDA model says about the LR situation http://www.sci-con.org/WW_IDAmodel.html Visit our archives at: http://sci-con.org/archive.html _______________________ NEW ADDRESS Science & Consciousness Review can now be found at www.sci-con.org. Soon, we will launch new features and forums for the scientific study of consciousness. Please update your links and preferences. _______________________ SEND YOUR CONTRIBUTION For students, teachers, scientists, and all other fans of consciousness... Send your news summaries to us. See more at: http://sci-con.org/author_instructions.html ___________________ Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy -- Neuropsychologist -- www.ramsoy.dk ramsoy(a)tiscali.dk Managing Editor Science & Consciousness Review www.sci-con.org Administrator Nordic Network for Consciousness Studies www.psy.au.dk/phd/nncs