{"product_id":"a-world-appears-a-journey-into-consciousness","title":"A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"1528724585\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-cel-widget=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" data-csa-c-id=\"xunhwb-14o2z6-o5yzbj-gnwzj2\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eA World Appears\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e focuses on AI only intermittently, he has done it again.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Charles Finch,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the #1 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e bestselling author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eHow to Change Your Mind\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e, a panoptic exploration of consciousness—what it is, who has it, and why—and a meditation on the essence of our humanity\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen it comes to the phenomenon that is consciousness, there is one point on which scientists, philosophers, and artists all agree: It\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efeels\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA World Appears,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePollan 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. 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