My blog post on "Brain Mechanisms of Skilled Behavior".  largely an overview of recent Kawai paper in Neuron. http://blog.brainfacts.org/2015/04/brain-mechanisms-of-skill-learning/#.VUOH385YWqA

Melville's metaphor of the Deep Diver; probing the unconscious. http://coronaradiata.net/2014/08/03/the-myth-of-the-thought-diver/

http://blog.brainfacts.org/2014/07/book-review-consciousness-and-the-brain/#.U9XAM14Q7wJ
My blog/review of Dehaene's "Consciousness and the Brain"
Spoiler alert: I like it. A lot.

I’ve been working on an idea for several months: that exerting effort, force, has an subjective feeling, a quale, which lies behind a person’s intuitive idea of physics and causality. 

Downstream effects: when an infant gains control of voluntary movement, by way of this qualia, it gains sense an ability to affect the world and, hence,  free will.

 http://coronaradiata.net/2014/03/19/the-qualia-of-force/

v-day blog post:What is this thing called "love"? (from a scientific perspective)

http://blog.brainfacts.org/2014/02/what-is-this-thing-called-love/#.Uv5mX5FiYmA