to thank the organizers of the RESER conference for their invitation to present these views.

It is shown that under mild conditions the path-component of the identity in the dual group G* of an Abelian topological group G is precisely the union of the one-parameter subgroups of CT. This yields several corollaries, including a necessary condition for certain groups to be reflexive (to satisfy the Pontrjagin duality theorem), and a negative answer to a question of N. Noble. The main resu...

We give a characterization of reflexivity in terms of rotundity of the norm. Renorming characterization of various classes of Banach spaces is important and useful for applications. Some classes turn out to have very elegant descriptions, while most seem to resist the renorming point of view. The most spectacular result in this area is certainly the Enflo-Pisier characterization of superreflexi...

Introduction Consciousness is best understood in context, as one element of an interactive waking state in which the greater part of cognitive processing takes place in a nonconscious fashion. But if conscious and nonconscious processing are combined in the waking state, what distinguishes the former form the latter, what is consciousness, and what is its purpose? The answer to the second quest...