Michael Pollan’s hunt for consciousness
We have it. Plants have it. Machines may soon have it. Why do they all need one?
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Anthony Gottlieb
Anthony Gottlieb is a historian of ideas and the former executive editor of the Economist. His latest book is “Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophy in the Age of Airplanes” (Yale University Press)
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