The study of the brain-mind complex has been hampered by the dichotomy between objective biological neuroscience and subjective psychological science. This book presents a new theoretical model for how to "translate" between the two, using a third language: nonlinear physics and mathematics. It illustrates how the simultaneous use of these two approaches enriches the understanding of the neural and mental realms.

This book presents a systematic exploration of the subjective experience, keeping the investigation for the most part within a subjectivefirst person perspective through the use of “vignettes” as sources of data.  It also uses incorporates a ‘"third person” objective approach when that is relevant. The goal ofJourneys inthe Mindis to capture and convey the operations of the mind: both the shared blueprints common to the elaboration of subjective knowledge as well as the  immense fishnet ofpersonalized variables that operate in each mental phase-space and act upon the blueprints to...