#166 Are Plants Conscious? - Michael Pollan
Summary
Michael Pollan discusses his book *A World Appears*, exploring the boundaries between plant sentience and human consciousness. He argues that while plants lack subjective experience, they possess complex sensory abilities and bioelectric memory that challenge materialist views. The conversation also critiques the "hard problem" of consciousness, suggesting that science’s physicalist framework may be ill-equipped to explain subjective experience.
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