A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness

“There's some kind of intrinsic motion. Michael Pollan's recent book is brilliant talking about, you know, watching time lapses of plants growing and watching how they move and being like, dude, like these things, I don't, you know, I don't think they feel pain. I don't think they have a conscious awareness or anything, but there's something weird going on there, man.”

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“That's a joke aimed at one Swiss scientist in particular. You've read Michael Poland's new book. I haven't read the new one. The World Awaits. But I think the world of him. He's fantastic. And the new book is actually the book to read for people who are not either philosophers or neuroscientists or even psychologists for that matter on a world of weights is what it's called.”