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Science journalist Michael Pollan has written extensively about the therapeutic benefits of mind-altering psychedelics. His new book, ‘A World Appears,’ asks, what is consciousness? “Consciousness has kind of become the secular substitute for the soul,” he tells Terry Gross. Pollan also talks about current studies on consciousness and whether plants and artificial intelligence have consciousness. …
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The journalist and polymath probes the mysteries of the mind in this unsettling yet life-affirming investigation You can read Edward Posnett’s full review for the Guardian here.
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Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, plant biologists and novelists have all grappled with the mysteries of conscious experience, to an uncertain end. If you have access to Nature, you can also read this review by Christoph Koch on its website. Humans and other animals have subjective inner mental lives, seeing, smelling, imagining, remembering and feeling emotions such…
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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…
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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…
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The man who turned a generation on to hallucinogens returns with a head-spinning book about consciousness
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Dozens of religious leaders experienced magic mushrooms in a university study. Many are now evangelists for psychedelics.
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OPB’s Dave Miller spoke to Michael Pollan in front of an audience at the Newmark Theatre July 27 in Portland in an event put on by Powell’s Boons. This was one stop in Pollan’s West Coast leg of his paperback tour for This is Your Mind on Plants. Four years prior to this recording, Michael…
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Michael joins The Longform Podcast for the second time to discuss his latest book, This is Your Mind on Plants, as well as his Netflix docuseries adaptation of his previous book, How to Change Your Mind. Listen to the interview here.
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Your Mind on Psychedelics with Michael Pollan, The Prof G Show Michael Pollan, the NYT bestselling author of “This Is Your Mind on Plants,” joins Scott to discuss his research on the psychedelic space, including the changes he has registered over time as well as his own experience with the drugs.
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Michael joins Stephen on his show for the second time to promote the paperback of This is Your Mind on Plants. Watch the interview here.