I've also read those two books and I think we're just beginning to "sneak up" on the very edge of some major breakthroughs in understanding. If I was a youngster again, this field of interest would attract me strongly (along with what's happening in our concepts of "memory" and thinking processes. It's beginning to look very familiar to some of the "dreaming" and BSing that a bunch of us old hippies used to pass around.
Best to Stu and TLC for the cold.