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“#Consciousness is a labyrinth from which there is no exit.” —Michael Pollan, A World Awakens, A journey into consciousness.
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An exploration of the curren…

#Consciousness
Here’s some more muddled #maunderings of a doddering fool, maundered up while reading Michael Pollan’s A World Appears.
We can’t see our selves.
“I cannot cognize as an object itself that which I must presuppose in order to cognizance an object at all.” -Kant… (1/3)…

Another area in the study of #consciousness that has been almost entirely ignored by #science is the #unconscious. Partly because it’s difficult to study, but also due to a political bias against the u…

In the 2nd half of A World Appears Michael Pollan acknowledges that the #science of #consciousness does what science does, abstracting away everything that can’t be measured; looking from the outside in. But the map is not the territory. He begins to look at and talk to phemomenologists and our actu…

“A World Appears”, by Michael Pollan, is a tour de force recounting of the current state of our millennia-long attempts to define and explain #consciousness. Since Plato’s cave (and likely before that) thru #Descartes’ misguided duality, to today’s attempts at