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A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness

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內容簡介 世界如何顯現？我們又如何感知「我」的存在？每個人都與意識密不可分，但科學界至今仍無法解釋：為何三磅重的灰色物質（大腦），竟能產生主觀的情感、思想與生命體驗？90 年代起，科學界試圖將意識簡化為大腦活動，但這條路正陷入瓶頸。更激進的觀點如「泛心論」（panpsychism）開始受到關注，甚至有人質疑：自伽利略以來崇尚的「客觀科學」，是否真的有能力測量「第一人稱」的私密體驗？在《世界顯現》（A World Appears）中，波倫從西雅圖的神經科學實驗室出發，與哲學家、小說家以及佛教僧侶對談。他發現，對於意識的解讀，人文與靈性領域或許能教給我們更多。故事最終結束在紐西蘭山區的一個山洞裡——波倫在那裡體悟到：與其急著「解釋」意識，不如學習如何在日常生活中「實踐」意識。From the best-selling author of How to Change Your Mind, a pioneering search for consciousness in the brain and beyondA World Appears is the story of the quest to solve the greatest mystery in nature: consciousness. How does it feel to be you with your own personal feelings, thoughts and experiences? Every one of us is intimately familiar with consciousness, but no one knows how – or why – it came to be that three pounds of grey matter can generate a subjective point of view.The early 1990s marked the birth of a new science of consciousness, based on the assumption that the phenomenon could be explained in terms of brain activity, but that effort is faltering, and wilder ideas, such as panpsychism, are now getting a hearing. Indeed, there is now reason to doubt that ‘objective science’ as we have known it since Galileo has the right tools to plumb first-person experience. A World Appears takes Michael Pollan from the laboratories where scientists are searching for the neural correlates of consciousness to encounters with philosophers and novelists and Buddhist monks, whom he finds have just as much to teach us about consciousness, if not more.A story that begins in a brain lab in Seattle ends, of all places, in a cave in the mountains of New Mexico, where the author discovers that explaining consciousness may be less urgent than learning to practice it in our everyday lives.

作者介紹

作者介紹 Michael PollanMichael Pollan is an award-winning author, activist and journalist. His international best-selling books about the way we live today –including How to Change Your Mind, This Is Your Mind on Plants, In Defence of Food and The Omnivore's Dilemma­ – combine meticulous reporting with anthropology, philosophy, culture, health and natural history. Time Magazine has named him one of the hundred most influential people in the world. He lives in the Bay Area of California with his wife.

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最佳賣點 : 暢銷作家麥可．波倫跨界探索意識謎團！從神經科學實驗室到佛法禪修，他反思客觀科學的侷限，帶領讀者穿梭哲學與靈性邊界。這是一場重構自我的深度之旅，教你與其急著解釋意識，不如在日常中活出真實感知。

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