{"product_id":"a-world-appears-a-journey-into-consciousness","title":"A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eHow to Change Your Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, a pioneering search for consciousness in the brain and beyond.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen it comes to consciousness, there is one point scientists, philosophers and artists all agree on: that it feels\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003elike\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003esomething 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\n\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\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA World Appears\u003c\/i\u003e, 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\n\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\n\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","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53167022080314,"sku":"9780241813690","price":40.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0868\/6449\/4906\/files\/9780241813690.jpg?v=1773634111","url":"https:\/\/titlemusicfilmbooks.com\/products\/a-world-appears-a-journey-into-consciousness","provider":"TITLE ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}