How to understand your own consciousness (w/ Michael Pollan)

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  You're listening to How to Be a Better Human.

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  I'm your host, Chris Duffy.

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  Our guest today is Michael Pollan, the acclaimed journalist and writer who changed the way

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  that millions of people thought about plants and food with his books

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  The Omnivore's Dilemma and The Botany of Desire.

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  But in recent years, Michael has become fascinated with the way that plants can do more

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  than just give us a delicious meal.

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  They can also change the way we see the world, sometimes literally.

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  Michael dove into psychedelics with his book How to Change Your Mind.

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  And now he's looking at the question of consciousness itself in his latest book, A World Appears.

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  If there is anyone who could make us re-examine what it means to be human

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  and what it means to be ourselves, it 's Michael Pollan.

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  And to show you that these are issues and ideas that Michael has been thinking about for decades,

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  here is a clip from his 2008 TED Talk where he challenges the idea that we humans

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  are the only conscious beings on Earth.

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  Looking at the world from other species points of view is a cure

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  for the disease of human self-importance.

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  You suddenly realize that consciousness which we value and we consider the crowning achievement

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  of nature, human consciousness, is really just another set of tools for getting along in the world.

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  And it 's kind of natural that we would think it was the best tool,

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