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Sci & Tech● Low32m ago · Nov 15, 2026, 11:00 AM

Science still has difficulty understanding consciousness, says Michael Pollan

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[SUMMARY] In an interview, American journalist Michael Pollan comments on his latest book, in which he analyzes how difficult it is to penetrate the blind spot of consciousness. Investigating this issue, however, requires breaking paradigms and dealing with subjective experience, which physical sciences have difficu

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