A World Appears

  • Life is Short (How to Spend It Wisely)

    On Purpose with Jay Shetty

  • The elusive nature of consciousness

    Science Magazine

    Consciousness—long relegated to scholarly debates—is suddenly more than an academic issue, arising in current controversies over the moral status of artificial intelligence and invertebrates. This head subject is the topic of popular science writer Michael Pollan’s latest book, A World Appears, which offers readers a charming, witty, insightful, and eccentric account of Pollan’s efforts to…

  • John Banville on A World Appears by Michael Pollan — what is consciousness?

    The Financial Times

    The bestselling American author’s new book is an illuminating inquiry into the essence of being alive. If you’re a Financial Times subscriber, you can read this review here on their website, too. At a philosophy conference in Tucson in 1994, David Chalmers, a young Australian studying in the US, delivered a paper in which he…