A Whole New Mind

D. Pink, A Whole New Mind, New York Riverhead Books (2006). 

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Pink, D. H. 2005. A Whole New Mind Moving From the Knowledge Age to the Conceptual Age. Riverhead Books New York, NY. 

Moreover, a whole new generation of small quality-minded wineries has come into being since 1960, oriented more toward the French hybrids than the traditional varieties. At the same time, a number of these are giving some of the V. vinifera varieties another whirl. 

I think that the present two Colloid Chemistry issues of Topics in Current Chemistry nicely cover the width and the modern spirit of colloid science which (mostly just recently) has given chemists a whole new toolbox for treating and creating chemical nanostructures in a rational way. With this in mind, I hope that all the readers will find some inspiration and profit in the various contributions. 

We have seen that physical chemistry evolved from a deep dissatisfaction in the minds of a few pioneers with the current state of chemistry as a whole one could say that its emergence was research-driven and spread across the world by hordes of new Ph.Ds. Chemical engineering was driven by industrial needs and the corresponding changes that were required in undergraduate education. Polymer science started from a wish to understand certain natural products and moved by... 

LSD-25 to the behavioral and psychic actions of this drug. In other instances, we are still far from establishing such functional relations. It is hoped that renewed efforts with new and better techniques will enable us in the not-too-distant future to explain the whole "experience" produced by these substances, the whole "model psychosis," in terms of neural events. Should this be the case, one also would be a giant step closer to establishing a functional pathogenesis of endogenous mental disease i.e., one would be able to explain some or all the behavioral symptoms of the mentally ill in terms of abnormal neuronal function. It seems that with such a prospect in mind one could not think of a nobler task for a substance like LSD-25. 

The content of the experience has an emotional richness that is profoundly deep, yet so positive that one must laugh aloud. Inevitably, the subjective richness, and the apparent self-coherence of the content of the tryptamine trance, leads those who experience it to wonder after its implications for modem humans. The idea of the simultaneous coexistence of an alien dimension all around us is as strange an idea in the context of modem society as it must have been to the first shamans, whose experiments with psychoactive plants would have soon brought them to the same tryptamine doorway. What is the nature of the invisible landscape beyond that doorway The answer to the question is linked to the question of the nature of mind. If the world beyond the doorway can be given consensual validation of the sort extended to the electron and the black hole—in other words, if the world beyond the doorway is found to be a necessary part of scientifically mature thinking about the world—then our own circumscribed historical stmggle will be subject to whole new worlds of possibility. 

Life is a perfect equilibrium between mind and body. It is a whole of different variables that, during our life we have to set up. In this challenge the safe maintenance of the human body represents one of our most important goal. In this sense, science and technology play a key role in the extended life expectancy. In the last century and especially in the last years, the medical area, in order to afford the new challenge in health care, was subject to necessary and deep changes (improvements), thanks also to a cross-fertilization of several disciplines. 

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