Google's NotebookLM now lets users upload entire books and chat with them, enabling content transformation, AI podcast generation, and visual planning. In a demo, the tool turned Michael Pollan's 'Foo…
In a commentary on AI market exuberance, Michael Pollan's coevolutionary tulip metaphor is applied to the current boom in GPU compute and language models, with the author arguing that AI systems are '…
Michael Pollan, after years studying consciousness through neuroscience, psychedelics, and philosophy, finds the phenomenon increasingly inexplicable, yet remains certain of his own conscious experien…
A new book by Thomas W. Laqueur, "The Dog's Gaze: A Visual History," argues that dogs in art function as seers of details humans miss, providing a center of consciousness and conscience in paintings. …