ulysses

Ulysses can be read as an 18 part, homeric metaphor for brain function. Each chapter is a part of the brain. In parallel, all the chapters make a working brain. We read it sequentially, though. Or do we read it "re-entrantly", as Edelman would say???

michael jackson analogy

Consciousness is like Michael Jackson surrounded by his ever-changing entourage. Now that Michael is gone, the entourage keeps going somehow, and it's still his entourage! People in the entourage = neural circuits doing specific, mindless tasks.

dreams

If dreams are a harmless epi-phenomenon, maybe consciousness is too?

Are dreams meaningless because we are unconscious or are we unconscious because dreams are meaningless?