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Michael Pollan's hunt for consciousness

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In A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness, Michael Pollan horrifyingly reminds us that four decades ago infants were operated on without anaesthesia, because they were thought to lack consciousness. Now consciousness is all the rage. Few eyebrows were raised in 2024 when a convocation of scientists declared that every vertebrate and even some invertebrates may well have it. Pollan himself is inclined to grant a form of sentience to plants…

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Michael Pollan's hunt for consciousness

In A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness, Michael Pollan horrifyingly reminds us that four decades ago infants were operated on without anaesthesia, because they were thought to lack consciousness. Now consciousness is all the rage. Few eyebrows were raised in 2024 when a convocation of scientists declared that every vertebrate and even some invertebrates may well have it. Pollan himself is inclined to grant a form of sentience to plants…

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