Status Updates From The Antipodes of the Mind: ...

Shanon has finally begun to abstract away from the phenomenological findings and their classification and is turning now to their implication on consciousness. This should be where things start to really get interesting.

Continuing with the extensive lists. At times it's perfunctory, repetitive, tiring. Hopefully not much more of this before the author gets into his analysis.

Intelligent and compellingly written, even though it's scientific writing it's hard to put down -- and that's just the introduction.

It sounds like most of the book is a build-up to the good stuff in the last two chapters. However, his discussion on the drink's temporal effects at this point in the book is interesting, given the research I did for my book Time and Space and some of what physicists say about time.