“A World Appears”, by Michael Pollan, is a tour de force recounting of the current state of our millennia-long attempts to define and explain #consciousness. Since Plato’s cave (and likely before that) thru #Descartes’ misguided duality, to today’s attempts at #AGI, we’ve made some progress, but really there is still no consensus on what it is and how it happens. Pollan covers it all clearly and concisely. #recommended #bookstodon