Lynn Thoman
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1,549 appearances
29 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard today
Lynn Thoman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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A brain weighs just three pounds, yet it consumes a massive twenty percent of our metabolic energy.
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It generates only enough electricity to power a small light bulb.
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Yet it does something no light bulb, no supercomputer, and no chatbot has ever managed to do.
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It makes a world appear.
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Colors,
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sounds the feeling of being you.
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How does it do this?
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Hi everyone, I'm Lynn Thoman, and this is Three Takeaways.
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On Three Takeaways, I talk with some of the world's best thinkers, business leaders, writers, politicians, newsmakers, and scientists.
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Each episode ends with three key takeaways to help us understand the world and maybe even ourselves a little better.
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Today I'm excited to be with Michael Pollan, a journalist, Harvard, and Berkeley professor, an author who spent his career following one deceptively simple question after another to their strangest, deepest roots.
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In his new book, A World Appears, A Journey into Consciousness, he's chasing the biggest question of all, not what we think, but why we experience anything at all.
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Welcome, Michael, and thanks so much for joining Three Takeaways today.
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Great to be with you.
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The word consciousness is not easy to define.
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Can you define it simply for us?
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What is consciousness?
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It is such an interesting framing.
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What is it like to be a bat?
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