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What if your brain isn’t showing you the world as it truly is?
Journalist, professor, and author of "A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness" Michael Pollan explores one of the deepest questions of all: why do we experience anything in the first place?
He discusses:
- What consciousness actually isWhy the brain predicts reality instead of simply taking it inHow perception may be a kind of “controlled hallucination”Why we may see the world in the most useful way, not the most accurate wayWhat animals, plants, and AI reveal about consciousnessWhy feelings may be central to being consciousWhy attention may be one of our most precious resourcesHow social media and AI are putting consciousness under siegeWhy consciousness is something we may need to protect and cultivate
The world you see may feel solid, obvious, and real.
But Michael Pollan explains why the experience of being conscious is far stranger, more fragile, and more mysterious than most of us realize.