
Plants and the Mystery of Consciousness
Becky Ripley and Emily Knight unravel the mystery of consciousness with the help of some surprisingly intelligent plants.
The mystery of consciousness has been one of the most intractable and unsolvable problems across neuroscience, philosophy, and psychology. How can a lump of matter come to be... aware of itself? Is consciousness real, or an illusion? And even if I'm pretty convinced by my OWN conscious experience, how can I possibly know if something else is conscious too? Are you conscious? Is my dog conscious? Is the universe conscious, in a way we don't yet understand? Becky Ripley and Emily Knight wrestle with one of the biggest questions there is, with the help of some thinking, feeling, learning, listening plants who might be a lot smarter than you thought.
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