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A World Appears : A Journey into Consciousness.
'A World Appears' is a panoptic exploration of consciousness - what it is, who has it, and why - and a meditation on the essence of our humanity. From the author of 'This Your Mind On Plants' and 'How to Change Your Mind'.
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- ISBN: 9781984881991
- Physical Description: 320 pages
- Publisher: Canada : Penguin Publishing Group, 2026.
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| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | Library Bound Incorporated |
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| Subject: | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body SCIENCE / Cognitive Science |
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind, a panoptic exploration of consciousnessâwhat it is, who has it, and whyâand 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 natureâs 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 perspectivesâscientific, philosophical, literary, spiritual and psychedelicâto see what each can teach us about this central fact of life.
When neuroscientists began studying consciousness in the early 1990s, they sought to explain how and why three pounds of spongy gray matter could generate a subjective point of viewâassuming that the brain is the source of our perceived reality. 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 âplant neurobiologistsâ 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 Pollanâs dazzling exploration of consciousness, he discovers a world far deeper and stranger than our everyday reality. Eye-opening and mind-expanding, A World Appears takes us 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.
