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Pollan, a science writer, spent five years trying to understand how consciousness worked. The more he learned, the weirder ...

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A psychedelic experience set author Michael Pollan on a quest to understand consciousness in his new book A World Appears. He ...

Michael Pollan's widely anticipated new book, A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness, brings his signature acumen and wit to one of science's essential mysteries. Along the way, he pursues ...

What is consciousness? It is one of the most perplexing questions in science. You would expect our intimacy with it to give us a leg up in understanding how it works, but this has proven to be more of ...