Have you written a follow up yet, relating this to the Life Divine?

I found that the closest to neuroscience I could find in Sri Aurobindo's works - a most profound series of passages - was in his Kena Upanishad commentary. He speaks of 4 mental functions, sanjnana, prajnana, ajnana and vijanana, roughly - sensing, perceiving, volition and comprehensive or intuitive/analytic cognition.

The first two - sensing and perceiving - he says are established in evolution, and work rapidly, and the 2nd two are much slower, working with some effort - all 4 being a reflection of the supra mental consciousness. .

This is exactly the same idea as in contemporary cognitive science (minus the addition of the supra mental of course!!) of "slow" and "fast" thinking.

it also parallels the neurophenomenologyl of Buddhist neuroscientist Francisco Varela, who outlined the stages of unfoldment of a moment of consciousness - from sensing, to perceiving, to complex story-lines, to the sense of a limited separate "I."

I wrote about this in 'Yoga Psychology and the Transformation of Consciousness," an exploration of Sri Aurobindo's integral yoga psychology.

Thank you for your very interesting posts.