pollan

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It was the plume poppies in Michael Pollan’s garden that seeded his new book.

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By Michael Pollan Penguin Press: 320 pages, $32 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores.

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Like all of Pollan’s books, in his latest work, the reader goes on a voyage of discovery with him as he interviews leading scientists and looks to literature, Indigenous epistemologies, psychology and even plants themselves for answers to questions that may not have answers.

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“This interiority we have is so precious,” says Pollan, as he leans back against his cushy brown sofa in a navy blue sweater and worn loafers, a cup of green tea at his side.

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Much of the first part of the book, Pollan turns to materialist researchers using the scientific method to try to identify consciousness in the brain and body, a pursuit that academic institutions only came to see as legitimate in the ’90s.

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