ABSTRACT
In spite of the extensive scientific advances of modem times in our understanding of the material world, the nature and workings of the mind and consciousness and their relationship to the brain remain the deepest of mysteries largely unrevealed and relatively untouched by modem science until recently. But this has been rapidly changing, especially in the last few years, with dozens of books and many research papers appearing. In fact the new discipline of mental studies, already splintered into newly named subgroups such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, and the New Mysterians, is
well on the way to institutionalization, with a growing number of conferences, institutes and university programs, academic journals such as the very recent Journal of Consciousness Studies. The new field is replete with the kind of recondite argument, abstruse logic, and arcane terminology characteristic of early leaps into theory and research in a very complex field of study.
