Pollan Explores Consciousness Limits In New Book
Michael Pollan's new book, A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness, examines contemporary debates in consciousness studies, focusing on sentience, feeling, thinking and the self. The review highlights surprising evidence for plant goal-directed behavior, arguments for embodied and affective bases of consciousness, and Pollan’s skepticism about equating subjective feeling with computable software. The book surveys leading thinkers and underscores persistent theoretical disagreement.
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