What Humans, Animals and Plants Tell Us About Consciousness | Michael Pollan
Consciousness remains one of the deepest unsolved mysteries in science, with no consensus on how it arises from matter. Michael Pollan argues that our assumptions about consciousness as an emergent property of brain complexity are weak, and explores alternative theories—such as the brain
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