A World Appears
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Sep 10, 2026
William Leonard PickardHOST
And we'll say very well, what is consciousness? Who cares? Well, that's very grounded.
Rick DoblinGUEST
That's what my feeling was after reading Michael Pollan's A World Appears, which is a really interesting book.
Rick DoblinGUEST
But.
Rick DoblinGUEST
And I would say that I've always been focused on practical.
Marci MadaryHOST
If I forget everything that Sally's done for me, when I have to do a lot for Sally, I can feel like, oh, I'm just doing everything for Sally all the time.
Laura Lewis-BarrHOST
yeah and getting stuck in this kind of it feels almost fictional the world we've created and i'm reading this wonderful book now about consciousness i've mentioned it before it's called a world appears by michael pollan and it is about brain science and and what we're learning about human consciousness and It's pretty clear that consciousness is a hallucination where our senses, it's not even as much taking in information, it's making predictions based on past information, which is really trippy.
Laura Lewis-BarrHOST
And so we have this, I have this whole little game that I do about the things that I want and the things that I create and the people that I have expectations of and like the whole little drama that I live.
Laura Lewis-BarrHOST
as opposed to oh my god i'm alive and look at what i've been given which is what this dream is about and that the mistakes i made are forgiven just just to be in that
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Coming up next in the Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service, we have episode number 12 of A World Appears by Michael Pollan.
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Coming up next in the Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service, we have the USA Today.
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Following that at 2 o'clock is episode number 11 of A World Appears by Michael Pollan.
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Coming up next in the Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service, we have the USA Today.
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Following that at 2 o'clock is episode number 11 of A World Appears by Michael Pollan.
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Pamela WeissGUEST
No one can figure it out.
Pamela WeissGUEST
I, I r- I saw an interview recently with, um, the author And researcher Michael Pollan, who's written a number of books, but his most recent, which I keep, it's called A World Appears, and he spent four or five years going all around the world researching, trying to understand or understand what's understood about consciousness.
Pamela WeissGUEST
Years and years of research, full ti- full on.
Pamela WeissGUEST
And he started with scientists [laughs] and then he migrated to, like, spiritual teachers, because this is something that science can't measure but that is so central in our spiritual practice.
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Ann BlassNARRATOR
The Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service now presents a serialized reading of the book, A World Appears, A Journey into Consciousness by Michael Pollan.
Ann BlassNARRATOR
The book was published in 2026 by Penguin Press and is 239 pages long.
Ann BlassNARRATOR
Today's reading, episode number nine, begins on page 147.
Ann BlassNARRATOR
It feels like something to be us.
Ann BlassNARRATOR
Yet the fact that we have subjective experience of the world remains one of nature's greatest mysteries.
Ann BlassNARRATOR
How is it that our mental operations are accompanied by feelings, thoughts, and a sense of self? What would a scientific investigation of our inner life look like when we have a little distance and perspective on it as fish do of the sea? In A World Appears, Michael Pollan traces the unmapped continent that is consciousness, bringing radically different perspectives, scientific, philosophical, literary, spiritual, and psychedelic, to see what each can teach us about this central fact of life.
Ann BlassNARRATOR
When neuroscientists began studying consciousness in the early 1990s, they sought to explain how and why three pounds of spongy gray matter could generate a subjective point of view, assuming that the brain is the source of our perceived reality.
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Coming up next in the Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service, we have the USA Today at 2 o'clock with episode number 9 of A World Appears by Michael Pollan.
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Stay with us for these readings and more.
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The content is copyrighted by the respective publishers.
Ann BlassNARRATOR
The Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service now presents a serialized reading of the book, A World Appears, A Journey into Consciousness by Michael Pollan.
Ann BlassNARRATOR
The book was published in 2026 by Penguin Press and is 239 pages long.
Ann BlassNARRATOR
Today's reading, episode number nine, begins on page 147.
Ann BlassNARRATOR
It feels like something to be us.
Ann BlassNARRATOR
Yet the fact that we have subjective experience of the world remains one of nature's greatest mysteries.
Ann BlassNARRATOR
How is it that our mental operations are accompanied by feelings, thoughts, and a sense of self? What would a scientific investigation of our inner life look like when we have a little distance and perspective on it as fish do of the sea? In A World Appears, Michael Pollan traces the unmapped continent that is consciousness, bringing radically different perspectives, scientific, philosophical, literary, spiritual, and psychedelic, to see what each can teach us about this central fact of life.
Ann BlassNARRATOR
When neuroscientists began studying consciousness in the early 1990s, they sought to explain how and why three pounds of spongy gray matter could generate a subjective point of view, assuming that the brain is the source of our perceived reality.
EvelynNARRATOR
Thank you for listening.
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Coming up next in the Niagara Frontier Radio Reading Service, we have the USA Today at 2 o'clock with episode number 9 of A World Appears by Michael Pollan.
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