What is consciousness? Michael Pollan spent 4 years looking for the answer
- Written by Nick Haslam, Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne
Psychology, it’s said, has a long past but a short history. A popular version lists three stages.
First, around the turn of the 20th century, psychologists tried to capture the stream of conscious experience in the net of introspection. The behaviourists then declared the mind off limits, arguing that psychology should study observable...





