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How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness
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The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
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Pollan names it himself while arguing that plants are active players rather than passive subjects — the idea the whole episode turns on.
Why it came up
- Pollan names it while making the episode's central argument
- On how plants have shaped human desire to spread themselves
- The case that plants are participants, not scenery
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- The Huberman LabsWhat Humans, Animals and Plants Tell Us About Consciousness | Michael PollanSep 28, 2026with Michael PollanGuest
“I wrote a book called Botany of Desire which really looked at how”
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