States of Consciousness and Symbolic Cognition Joseph Glicksohn, Bar-Ilan University The Journal of Mind and Behavior, Spring 1998, Vol.19, No. 2, Pages 105—118, ISSN 0271—0137 Consciousness6 carries the connotation of a state of consciousness (Natsoulas, 1997). It is an emergent property of a gestalt phenomenon, namely the psychophysiological state of the organism (Glicksohn, 1993a). In this article, I