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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 week ago

Michael Pollan probes the mystery of consciousness in new book

I can't be sure you're conscious. I have to infer that from the evidence: that you're the same species as me, and our species can be conscious, and we have something called philosophy of mind, which is an imaginative faculty that allows us to imagine what other people are thinking. I know I'm conscious, I think. That's actually the thing we know with the greatest certainty.
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fromThe New Yorker
9 months ago

Michael Pollan on What Happens When Priests Get High

The psilocybin study revealed that many religious leaders perceived divine experiences as transformative and often feminine.
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