{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/69380c0d4a9751f83d7c325d/69c7997fe05c00aacfcc72ea?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"What do mushrooms have to do with consciousness? with Michael Pollan","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/69380c0d4a9751f83d7c325d/1774688601437-b69491e7-fb30-4efd-82d9-95b8014cf2d1.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Michael Pollan, a writer best known for his work on the effect of psychedelics, has taken a journey into the inner mind.</p><p><br></p><p>For much of modern history, we’ve understood the mind in comparison to our most advanced machines. Once it was clockwork, then looms, now computers. Each metaphor promises clarity - the ability to be mapped and modelled - but each, in its own way, falls short.</p><p><br></p><p>Drawing on philosophy, literature and his own experiments with altered states, in Michael Pollan takes aim at this habit of thinking.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>","author_name":"The New Statesman"}