Michael Pollan
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This film or show by Michael Pollan came up once on Tim Ferriss in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Tim Ferriss. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“there's a piece called the intelligent plant that michael pollan wrote for the new yorker at one point which also speaks to this”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Donald Hoffman: Professor of cognitive science at UC Irvine and former member of the Helmholtz Club, a secret consciousness-research group led by Francis Crick. He developed the interface theory of perception and a mathematical theory of conscious agents. Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues evolution hid objective reality, space-time is doomed, and consciousness is fundamental.