{"product_id":"a-world-appears-a-journey-into-consciousness","title":"A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the best-selling author of How to Change Your Mind, a pioneering search for consciousness in the brain and beyond\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen it comes to consciousness, there is one point scientists, philosophers and artists all agree on- that it feels like something to be ourselves. And yet, the fact that each and every one of us has a subjective experience of the world continues to be one of the greatest mysteries in nature. How is it that our mental operations are accompanied by feelings, thoughts and a sense of self? What would studying the inner life scientifically even look like?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat began for Michael Pollan as a startling awareness of his own consciousness soon evolved into a deeper fascination with this strange and elusive phenomenon. In A World Appears, Pollan traces the unmapped continent that is consciousness from several radically different perspectives - scientific, philosophical, spiritual, historical and psychedelic - to see what each has to teach us about this fundamental fact of our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere Pollan ventures beyond the brain labs attempting to find neural explanations for our felt reality, and discovers the latest cutting-edge advances in the field. He introduces us to plant neurobiologists studying nature's surprisingly complex intelligence; neuroscientists and psychoanalysts attempting to engineer feeling into AI; and novelists recreating our slippery stream of consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePollan's dazzling exploration of consciousness uncovers a world far deeper than our everyday reality - and perhaps even beyond it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40927544574016,"sku":"9780241813690","price":45.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0564\/0876\/8576\/files\/a-world-appears-a-journey-into-consciousness-4430015.jpg?v=1773620953","url":"https:\/\/thepageandprose.co.nz\/products\/a-world-appears-a-journey-into-consciousness","provider":"The Page and Prose Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}