Michael Pollan on the Mystery of Consciousness

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Episode: Michael Pollan on the Mystery of Consciousness

Pub date: 2026-02-23

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Five years ago, Michael Pollan — the acclaimed author of The Botany of Desire, The Omnivore's Dilemma, and How to Change Your Mind — went looking for an answer to one of life's great mysteries: "How does three pounds of brain matter generate subjective experience?" The result is his luminous new book, A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness, which comes…