迈克尔·波伦：意识成为执念

“It becomes an obsession” A psychedelic experience set author Michael Pollan on a quest to understand consciousness. He tells Olivia Goldhill what he learned – and how it changed him Olivia Goldhill: Let’s start with a deceptively tricky question: how do you define consciousness? Michael Pollan: The simplest way is to define it as subjective experience. We have subjective experience; toasters do not. You could even take off the “subjective” because having experience implies being aware that you’re having experience. Another definition I like comes from philosopher Thomas Nagel, who wrote a famous 1974 essay, “What is it like to be a bat?”. …