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Michael Pollan Returns (on consciousness)

2026-04-01 · 130 min · episode 1030 · 13 entities

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  • → references allstate.com website
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    Link in episode "Michael Pollan Returns (on consciousness)": https://allstate.com/

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  • mentioned Armchair Expert | Wondery person
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  • mentioned Michael Pollan person
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    Michael Pollan Returns (on consciousness)
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  • discusses Comedy concept
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  • discusses Music concept
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  • mentioned allstate.com website
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    Link in episode "Michael Pollan Returns (on consciousness)": https://allstate.com/
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    Link in episode "Michael Pollan Returns (on consciousness)": https://allstate.com/

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Michael Pollan (A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness) is a science and environmental journalist. Michael returns to the Armchair Expert to discuss why choosing surrender is liberating in both psychedelics and life, what the “hard problem” of consciousness is and how we get to it, and how sentience serves homeostasis in living beings. Michael and Dax talk about asking what the world would be like without consciousness, the remarkable fact that plants can see, hear, and fight, and experimental evidence via the ginger test that disgust originates in the gut. Michael explains the qualitative redness of red, that there’s so much more going on in consciousness besides computation, and what strange places to visit our minds are. Take printer ink off your to-do list with HP Smart Tank | hp.com/SmartTank Check Allstate first for a quote that could save you hundreds: https://www.allstate.com/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .