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A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness
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ISBN10: 198488199X
ISBN13: 9781984881991
Publisher: Penguin Press
Published: Feb 24 2026
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.22
Height: 1.15 Width: 6.41 Depth: 9.43
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781984881991
Publisher: Penguin Press
Published: Feb 24 2026
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.22
Height: 1.15 Width: 6.41 Depth: 9.43
Language: English
The Instant New York Times Bestseller - One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of the Summer - Finalist for the Kirkus Prize Pollan's real genius--the word is not too strong--remains intact. That is his uncanny ability to scent the direction in which the culture is headed. He did it with food and psychedelics, and now, though A World Appears focuses on AI only intermittently, he has done it again. --Charles Finch, The Atlantic From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind, a panoptic exploration of consciousness--what it is, who has it, and why--and a meditation on the essence of our humanity
When it comes to the phenomenon that is consciousness, there is one point on which scientists, philosophers, and artists all agree: It feels like something to be us. Yet the fact that we have subjective experience of the world remains one of nature's greatest mysteries. How is it that our mental operations are accompanied by feelings, thoughts, and a sense of self? What would a scientific investigation of our inner life look like when we have as little distance and perspective on it as fish do of the sea? In A World Appears, Michael Pollan traces the unmapped continent that is consciousness, bringing radically different perspectives--scientific, philosophical, literary, spiritual, and psychedelic--to see what each can teach us about this central fact of life. Pollan takes us to the cutting edge of the field, where scientists are entertaining more radical (and less materialist) theories of consciousness. He introduces us to plant neurobiologists searching for the first flicker of consciousness in plants, scientists striving to engineer feelings into AI, and psychologists and novelists seeking to capture the felt experience of our slippery stream of consciousness. In Pollan's dazzling exploration, he discovers a world far deeper and stranger than our everyday reality. Eye-opening and mind-expanding, A World Appears tunnels into the laboratories of our own minds, ultimately showing us how we might make better use of the gift of awareness to more meaningfully connect with the world and our deepest selves.
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