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A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness

byMichael Pollan

Michael Pollan explores one of science and philosophy's most persistent mysteries: how subjective experience arises and why the world appears to us at all. He visits researchers, considers competing theories, and connects laboratory work with the intimate facts of perception, memory, attention, and selfhood. The inquiry moves between neuroscience, evolution, philosophy, and lived experience without pretending that consciousness has yielded to a single explanation. Pollan invites readers to see the familiar act of being aware as both an everyday reality and a profound unresolved problem.

Publisher

Random House

Publication date

2026-02-24

Format

Hardcover

Pages

320

ISBN

9781984881991