: Blake Lemoine is ‘sixty to seventy per cent certain’ that Google has ‘created a sentient being it doesn’t want to publicly acknowledge’. Pollan interviews scientists and philosophers who believe this but the mystery remains. ‘We already know how to do that.’In the course of the book, Pollan is a willing participant in attempts to understand his own thinking. Maybe the ‘self’ – ‘by far the most interesting, and most mysterious, creation of consciousness’ – is nothing more than an illusion. At the end of the book, Pollan still finds himself, in his own words, ‘wandering in the exitless labyrinth of consciousness’.

Source: Daily Mail March 01, 2026 09:50 UTC