Reviews of A World Appears

  • A fluent survey of what we know—or think we know—about the mind.

    Kirkus Reviews

    A page-turner that explores the hidden world of the mind. Pollan’s latest begins with a wager between a philosopher and a scientist back in 1998, one premised on the discovery of the brain’s physical basis for consciousness, which the scientist predicted would “comprise a small set of specialized neurons responsible for subjective experience.” The scientist,…