A psychedelic experience set author Michael Pollan on a quest to understand consciousness in his new book A World Appears. He ...

If “coupled” to this enigmatic origin, even a machine could find sentience, according to this controversial theory.

The brain exists to keep the body alive, not the other way around,” argues the author Michael Pollan as he explores the ...

Pollan, a science writer, spent five years trying to understand how consciousness worked. The more he learned, the weirder ...

For many decades, psychologists, psychiatrists, and medical scientists have described two separate components of the human ...

The 24th annual Conscious Life Expo will take place Feb. 20–23, 2026, at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport, bringing together hundreds of speakers, vendors and attendees exploring topics that range from ...

What can you see right now? This might seem like a silly question, but what enters your consciousness is not the whole story ...