What Michael Pollan has said about Artificial intelligence
1 quote · 1 episode · Sep 28, 2026
Michael Pollan, Journalist and author of How to Change Your Mind, has been quoted on Artificial intelligence once in 1 episode of Huberman Lab, most recently on September 28, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Pollan argues that conscious silicon computers are unlikely because the brain-as-computer metaphor is flawed.
“As long as we're dealing with silicon computers, the idea that you could have a conscious computer is based on a faulty metaphor of the brain as a computer”
Huberman Lab: What Humans, Animals and Plants Tell Us About Consciousness | Michael Pollan (Sep 28, 2026) · Listen from 1:16:18
Episodes
What Humans, Animals and Plants Tell Us About Consciousness | Michael PollanHuberman Lab · Sep 28, 2026 · 2 h 3 min
Andrew Huberman and author Michael Pollan discuss consciousness, plant intelligence, the microbiome, psychedelics, food politics and Pollan's experiment quitting caffeine.
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