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A World Appears Into Consciousness - Learning the Principles of Consciousness Identity and the Mystery of Existence in Michael Pollan's World - cover

A World Appears Into Consciousness - Learning the Principles of Consciousness Identity and the Mystery of Existence in Michael Pollan's World

Charlie M. Brown

Publisher: BookRix

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Summary

You are conscious right now. You cannot explain why.Neither can the world's leading neuroscientists, philosophers, or physicists — and that should stop you cold for a moment. Because hidden inside that silence is one of the most astonishing stories ever told: the story of what you actually are.A World Appears Into Consciousness takes you inside the most profound mystery science has ever confronted — the felt reality of being alive — and refuses to let it go until you see it clearly for what it is: not a problem to be solved, but a discovery that changes everything.You will travel from the neural architecture of selfhood to the edges of the universe. You will sit with monks whose resting brains show gamma activity neuroscientists have never seen in ordinary people. You will follow researchers watching gamma oscillations surge in dying human brains at the very moment cardiac activity has stopped. You will understand why psilocybin dissolves the self, what that dissolution reveals about who you are beneath the narrator, and why that answer has profound implications for depression, addiction, and how we treat every conscious being alive. You will arrive at the oldest question in philosophy — why is there something rather than nothing? — and discover that consciousness sits at its exact center.Written with the rigor of the best science writing and the warmth of a conversation between brilliant friends, this book does not talk down to you. It talks toward you — toward the reader who has always suspected that the official story about mind and matter is incomplete.Every moment of your awareness is the most extraordinary thing in the known universe. This book will make you feel that — and understand it.You have been conscious your entire life. It is time to find out what that means. 
Available since: 02/19/2026.
Print length: 198 pages.

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