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Who Is Thinking?

The American Scholar
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A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness by Michael Pollan; Penguin Press, 320 pp., $32
In 1998, philosopher David Chalmers made a bet with neuroscientist Christof Koch about whether, in the next 25 years, any scientist would be able to offer a persuasive and precise explanation for how our messy, spongy brains give rise to the feeling of awareness. Koch wagered that the puzzle could be solved. Four years earlier, Chalmers was a somewhat disheveled postdoctoral fellow at Washington Universi

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