Michael Pollan's A World Appears Probes the Limits of AI Feelings

Michael Pollan has released “A World Appears” which explores consciousness and challenges the notion that artificial intelligence can truly replicate human experience.Drawing on research into psychedelics and the 2023 Butlin report, the author questions if machines can develop empathy while cautioning against emotional attachments to chatbots.Michael Pollan argues that the complex integration of biological hardware and software in the human brain remains a unique barrier to conscious machines.