Michael Pollan — The Mystery of Consciousness

From Krista: Michael Pollan’s latest book, A World Appears , is an exploration — with scientists and journalists and technologists and spiritual teachers — of what consciousness is, and is not, or might be: from the plants which have always fascinated him, to the new technologies which we are marveling at and fearing in equal measure. Do sentience, feeling, thought, or a sense of self amount to…