the final talk in the neuroethics series this year was given by robert sawyer, who read a bit from his book, and talked about consciousness, penrose and hammeroff's wacky microtubules theory and how flash forward (starring john cho!) has been ordered to series, and may possibly be awesome, unless it's like lost, in which case it won't. if you have to choose one of those links to go to, do quantum consciousness; it's worth it. not the world's biggest sci-fi fan here, but i think i'm persuaded enough to read www:wake, and possibly calculating god. book reports shortly.