#475 — The Hard Problem of Consciousness

第475号——意识的难题

Making Sense with Sam Harris

2026-05-13

25 分钟

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Sam Harris speaks with Michael Pollan about consciousness, the mind, and the self. They discuss Pollan's new book, the relationship between consciousness and intelligence, whether consciousness is a product of evolution, the role of psychedelics in consciousness research, AI and the question of machine consciousness, the illusion of the self, and other topics. If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-length episodes at samharris.org/subscribe.
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  • I'm here with Michael Pollan.

  • Michael, it's great to see you again.

  • Yeah, great to be back, Sam.

  • We're seeing you for the first time.

  • We were just talking about the fact that the last podcast, I think, was just audio, right?

  • It was a phone call, effectively.

  • Yeah, I actually remember the day really well.

  • It was 2018, and I was in a hotel room in Portland, Oregon.

  • Has that much time passed?

  • Jesus, that's really depressing.

  • How to change your mind had just come out.

  • And we were talking about psychedelics.

  • This must be a function of age, but when asked to estimate how much time has elapsed,

  • I'm always off by a factor of at least two, if not three.