# Event Details - **Event Name**: Mycoverse: A World Appears Book Discussion - **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 27 Jul, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Mon, 27 Jul, 2026 at 08:00 pm - **Event Description**: Join us as we explore how the recent research about the consciousness of natural world is connected to the future of conservation.About this EventExploring the Mycoverse Presents...A World Appears Book DiscussionOrganized and hosted by Aaron Tupac Sponsored by Arlington GardenJoin us as we explore how the recent research about the consciousness of natural world is connected to the future of conservation. Michael Pollan's new book sets the stage for the high stakes of who we consider to be conscious deserves legal rights and protections. Along with the rise of AI technologies and their trillion dollar industry, comes the claims for legal for protection and rights – arguments centered around consciousness. We will be discussing the book in its entirety. If you don't get a chance to read the book, we invite you to please watch Michael Pollan's talk about A World Appears he gave at this year's Bioneers conference, a conference centered on building better relationship with the natural world.From the publisher:When it comes to the phenomenon that is consciousness, there is one point on which scientists, philosophers, and artists all agree: that it feels like something to be us. Yet the fact 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, considering 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 grey matter could generate a subjective point of view—assuming that the brain is the source of our felt 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 our deepest selves.???????️????‍????????️????‍????????️????‍?✉️ Join Exploring the Mycoverse's mycelial network: ?‍?Sign up for the Sporinator Substack email newsletter.Follow Exploring the Mycoverse on Instagram.Sign up for Alrington Garden's Newsletter here. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events9/banners/55df4e40-82b7-11f1-a0f0-b3fc05930e16-rimg-w987-h740-dca1ad7c-gmir.jpg https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/561ad0a0-82b7-11f1-a0f0-b3fc05930e16-rimg-w994-h740-dc030102-gmir.jpg https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events3/banners/565d57e0-82b7-11f1-a0f0-b3fc05930e16-rimg-w1108-h740-dc61452c-gmir.jpg https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/569be780-82b7-11f1-8a8c-3fe57d70e589-rimg-w1200-h627-dc45311b-gmir.jpg https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events6/banners/56ee7450-82b7-11f1-8a8c-3fe57d70e589-rimg-w1108-h740-dc171315-gmir.jpg https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events9/banners/57325b20-82b7-11f1-957f-f1f06462340d-rimg-w1108-h740-dc181312-gmir.jpg https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/576a5b10-82b7-11f1-a0f0-b3fc05930e16-rimg-w1108-h740-dc181514-gmir.jpg https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/57a986f0-82b7-11f1-957f-f1f06462340d-rimg-w1200-h731-dc1b1411-gmir.jpg - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/pasadena/mycoverse-a-world-appears-book-discussion/100001990826542781 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, business, conferences - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 2 hours - Location: Arlington Garden in Pasadena - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Pasadena - **state**: CA - **country**: United States - **location**: Arlington Garden in Pasadena - **lat**: 34.128795805905 - **long**: -118.15558791161 - **full address**: Arlington Garden in Pasadena, 275 ARLINGTON DR, Pasadena, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Mycoverse: A World Appears Book Discussion - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events9/banners/1cdb816ce610c8361b40af597cec70a63b602e5342a8d45cedbf164bfb75606d-rimg-w1200-h1824-dc2e344c-gmir.jpg?v=1780355887 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Mycoverse: A World Appears Book Discussion being held? - **A:** Mycoverse: A World Appears Book Discussion takes place on Mon, 27 Jul, 2026 at 06:00 pm to Mon, 27 Jul, 2026 at 08:00 pm at Arlington Garden in Pasadena, 275 ARLINGTON DR, Pasadena, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Mycoverse: A World Appears Book Discussion? - **A:** Mycoverse: A World Appears Book Discussion is organized by Arlington Garden in Pasadena. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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