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'Big, generous, illuminating and beautifully written' John Banville, Financial Times
From the best-selling author of How to Change Your Mind, a pioneering search for consciousness in the brain and beyond
A World Appears is the story of the quest to solve the greatest mystery in nature: consciousness. How does it…
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I often return to this book whenever I lose my sense of perception.
Pollan does what only few can do, turning the strangest territory of human experience into something I can almost touch. As somebody who works with creativity and researches intelligence, I find his approach to consciousness disarming. He writes about the mind the way I wish more did, with humility intact.
From Andrea's list on being human in the age of AI.
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