I just read Elizabeth Grosz's Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism.  Question: How does ANYONE still cling to Cartesian Dualism as a viable model of consciousness?  Anyone?  You there in the back?  Any ideas?  Yeah, I understand that It's difficult if not damned near impossible to talk about the practicalities of lived experience in non-dual (mind/body) language but, it's so damned far from the reality of lived experience.  How's this going to play out?  Is everybody going to read Merleau-Ponty's The Phenomenology of Perception and a mess of Nietzsche and then hug it out?   

Also - Google image search this: Codex Seraphinianus

Also - Briane Greene wants to answer all of your questions about the universe and everything.  Do so here: http://worldsciencefestival.com/blog/topic/ask_brian_greene.  The more I learn about theories of consciousness and ontology, the more they fit with current theories of physical reality.  It seems that at the quantum state, scientific descriptions of matter become plastic and poetical.  Metaphysical duality becomes not either/or, but both/and.  Reality hinges now on a chiasmic unity, an invaginated and self infolding dual/unity.  Wave/particele.  Tiny vibrating strings?  Gah! 

Also - go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Go NOW.  It's amazing.