Michael Pollan Wants You to Rethink Consciousness

Michael Pollan Wants You to Rethink Consciousness

Andrea Miller: What is consciousness? In what way is the soul a good definition for it, and in what way is it not? Michael Pollan: Consciousness and the soul have an old relationship. The people who talk about the soul are often doing it in a religious context, and it has supernatural implications that consciousness doesn’t always have. But soul talk has infiltrated consciousness talk in lots of interesting ways. Consciousness is sort of the mod…