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一个世界的显现：通往意识的旅程 A World Appears:A Journey into Consciousness

基本信息

Publisher：Penguin Press

Publication date：Feb. 24 2026

Language：English

Print length：320 pages

ISBN-10：198488199X

ISBN-13：978-1984881991

Item weight：566 g

Dimensions：15.56 x 2.06 x 23.5 cm

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书籍简介

本书出自《纽约时报》畅销书品《如何改变你的想法》的作者迈克尔·波伦之手，是对意识的一次全景式探索——意识是什么，谁拥有意识，以及为什么——并对我们人性的本质进行了沉思。

谈到意识这种现象，科学家、哲学家和艺术家们都一致认为：意识让我们感到存在。然而，我们拥有对世界的主观体验这一事实，仍然是自然界的谜团之一。我们的思维活动是如何伴随着感觉、思想和自我意识的呢？当我们对内心世界如同鱼儿对海洋一样缺乏距离和视角时，对内心世界的科学研究又会是什么样子呢？在《世界显现》一书中，迈克尔·波伦追溯了意识这片未知的领域，从科学、哲学、文学、灵性和迷幻等截然不同的视角出发，探讨每种视角能为我们揭示这一生命核心真相的哪些奥秘。

20世纪90年代初，神经科学家开始研究意识时，他们试图解释三磅重的海绵状灰质如何以及为何能够产生主观视角——前提是大脑是我们感知现实的源泉。波伦带领我们来到这一领域的前沿，科学家们正在探索更为激进（也更少唯物主义）的意识理论。他向我们介绍了“植物神经生物学家”，他们致力于在植物中寻找意识的迹象；科学家们努力将情感融入人工智能；以及心理学家和小说家，他们试图捕捉我们变幻莫测的意识流所带来的切身感受。

在波伦对意识的精彩探索中，他发现了一个远比我们日常现实更加深邃、更加奇异的世界。《世界显现》一书令人大开眼界、拓展思维，带领我们进入自身心灵的实验室，向我们展示了如何更好地利用意识这一天赋，从而更有意义地与世界和我们内心深处建立联系。

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind, a panoptic exploration of consciousness—what it is, who has it, and why—and a meditation on the essence of our humanity

When it comes to the phenomenon that is consciousness, there is one point on which scientists, philosophers, and artists all agree: it feels like something to be us. Yet the fact that we have subjective experience of the world remains one of nature’s greatest mysteries. How is it that our mental operations are accompanied by feelings, thoughts, and a sense of self? What would a scientific investigation of our inner life look like, when we have as little distance and perspective on it as fish do of the sea? In A World Appears, Michael Pollan traces the unmapped continent that is consciousness, bringing radically different perspectives—scientific, philosophical, literary, spiritual and psychedelic—to see what each can teach us about this central fact of life.

When neuroscientists began studying consciousness in the early 1990s, they sought to explain how and why three pounds of spongy gray matter could generate a subjective point of view—assuming that the brain is the source of our perceived reality. Pollan takes us to the cutting edge of the field, where scientists are entertaining more radical (and less materialist) theories of consciousness. He introduces us to “plant neurobiologists” searching for the first flicker of consciousness in plants, scientists striving to engineer feelings into AI, and psychologists and novelists seeking to capture the felt experience of our slippery stream of consciousness.

In Pollan’s dazzling exploration of consciousness, he discovers a world far deeper and stranger than our everyday reality. Eye-opening and mind-expanding, A World Appears takes us into the laboratories of our own minds, ultimately showing us how we might make better use of the gift of awareness to more meaningfully connect with the world and our deepest selves.

作者简介

迈克尔·波伦著有十本书，包括《植物之道》（This Is Your Mind on Plants）、《如何改变你的想法》（How to Change Your Mind）、《烹饪》（Cooked）、《食物规则》（Food Rules）、《食物的辩护》（In Defense of Food）、《杂食者的困境》（The Omnivore’s Dilemma）和《欲望植物学》（The Botany of Desire），这些书都曾荣登《纽约时报》畅销书榜。波伦曾获得古根海姆奖和拉德克利夫奖，并在加州大学伯克利分校和哈佛大学教授写作。2010年，《时代》杂志将他评为全球具影响力的百人之一。

Michael Pollan is the author of ten books, including This Is Your Mind on Plants, How to Change Your Mind, Cooked, Food Rules, In Defense of Food, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and The Botany of Desire, all of which were New York Times bestsellers. A Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellow, Pollan has taught writing at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Harvard University. In 2010, Time named him one of the one hundred most influential people in the world.