Novel ideas on consciousness...

Returned from an eye-opening GRC Conference spanning ideas on Consciousness, Anesthesia, and Evolution, together with Julia. We were exposed to the scientific study of sleep walking ("parasomnia"), dreaming outside of REM sleep (and the potential therapeutic relief due to those dreams), and the truly impressive ability of our brains to somehow restart their activity without any discernable discrepancies, following the loss of consciousness due to both anesthesia and sleep. A truly illuminating set of lectures - and rich discussions, set in the Tuscan hills outside Lucca.