The elusive nature of consciousness · B. J. King
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A writer grapples with neuroscience’s hardest problem A WORLD APPEARS | Consciousness—long relegated to scholarly debates—is suddenly more than an aca- demic issue, arising in current controversies over the moral status of artificial intelligence and inver- tebrates. This heady subject is the topic of popular science writer Michael Pollan’s latest book, A World Appears, which offers readers a charming, witty, insightful, and eccentric account of Pollan’s efforts to understand this elusive concept—a journey in which, he writes, he knows less at the end than he did at the beginning. …
摘自《科学》(Science)第391卷 第6786期 · 2026年2月12日,B. J. King。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。