#2467 - Michael Pollan
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Hey. Good to be back.
Consciousness. So this new book, what inspired it? What what got you to I mean, you you've kind of explored consciousness a little bit with your
Psychedelic book. Yeah. How to change your mind. Well, actually, this book was inspired by the research I did for that book. As you know, I had several, research trips. And
Do you do air quotes when you say research? Yes.
And two things happened that were really interesting. One is there's something about psychedelics that makes you think about consciousness. It you know, it's like smudging the windscreen, the windshield that you normally is perfectly transparent and you see the world through. Suddenly, it's, like, different, and you realize there's something between me and the world. And what is it? And that's consciousness. And so like a lot of people who've done psychedelics, you start wondering about this mystery. Why is it this way, not that way? So that was one experience. The other was I had an experienc
So there's a bunch of different schools of thought when it comes to consciousness. Right? There's one, like, Rupert Sheldrake thing that sort of everything has consciousness and there's the sort of rational scientists that believe it exists somewhere in the mind. I don't know.
In the brain?
Yeah. In the brain. Excuse me. And then there's people that think that the brain is essentially just an antenna Right. That's tuning Yeah. In to the greater consciousness of whatever it is that's out there. Yeah. Do you have any one of them that you hold
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