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(Interesting to see thinkers like Pollan wade into the realm of consciousness and panpsychism now… times they are a changin’!)
Michael Pollan Says Humanity Is About to Undergo a Revolutionary Change – The New York Times (Gift Article):
Panpsychism is the idea that everything, every particle, the ink on the page, the atoms, all have some infinitesimal degree of psyche or consciousness, and somehow this consciousness is combined in some way from our cells and the rest of our bodies to create this kind of superconsciousness. It sounds crazy. There are some very serious people who believe in it. You have to expand your sense of the plausible when you’re looking at consciousness. But we’ve done that before. How long ago was it that we discovered electromagnetism? This crazy idea that there are all these waves passing through us that can carry information. That’s just as mind-blowing, right?