Thus Spoke the Plant

This book by Monica Gagliano was genuinely recommended once in the episodes we index, on Tim Ferriss. The people who vouched for it on air: Donald Hoffman. It comes up in conversations about consciousness, psychedelics. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

• “there's a brilliant researcher named monica gagliano she's got a book called thus spoke the plant i love the title by monica gagliano”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “there's a brilliant researcher named monica gagliano ... i love the title”
  Donald Hoffman · The Tim Ferriss Show · Apr 202201:32:04

  Said during "The Case Against Reality, Professor Donald Hoffman". The episode features Donald Hoffman: Professor of cognitive science at UC Irvine and former member of the Helmholtz Club, a secret consciousness-research group led by Francis Crick. He developed the interface theory of perception and a mathematical theory of conscious agents. Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues evolution hid objective reality, space-time is doomed, and consciousness is fundamental.