Michael Pollan
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 28 May
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I think attention is a subset of consciousness.
So attention is part of it.
Attachment is another part of it, though.
Attachment?
Yeah, emotional attachments.
That's a big part of consciousness, too.
And that's now having won our attention.
Now the companies are now going for our attachments with chatbots.
It's going to be easier to manipulate.
Definitely.
It's going to be angrier.
It's going to be angrier.
I mean, it's a space of freedom and you give up the space of freedom and you're thinking other people's thoughts and you're much more vulnerable to manipulation.
If you really nurture your own mind and your own sense of consciousness, you're much less likely to fall for lies.
You're much more likely to think independently.
How do you think independently when you're scrolling?
You don't.
You react, but you're not setting the agenda.
You're letting an algorithm set the agenda.
But it is the nature of capitalism to intrude on more and more of our lives, more and more of our time.
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