Book · 2019 · Psychology
Conscious
A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind
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In your book "Conscious," you describe evidence that free will is an illusion and that consciousness is used to construct this illusion, convincing ourselves that we are, in fact, deciding our actions. Can you explain this? I think this is in chapter three.
Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 2022 Listen at 1:02 The best things said about it
Yes and those you know actually Annika Harris Sam Harris's wife wrote a cool book which I also haven't read but I know about it um uh it's uh it's called conscious and it's all about pants psychism which is cool coming from her because she obviously is like rigorous.
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Conscious by Annaka Harris is a brief guide to the fundamental mystery of the mind that investigates the nature of consciousness and reality from the perspectives of neuroscience and physics. The book has garnered notable attention across multiple podcasts. On The Rich Roll Podcast, Rich Roll congratulated Annaka Harris on the publication's success after it landed on the New York Times bestseller list, praising the compact size and profound scope of the work. Similarly, on the Lex Fridman Podcast, Lex Fridman introduced Harris as an insightful author and explored specific chapters in her book, focusing particularly on arguments suggesting that free will is an illusion constructed by consciousness to convince individuals that they actively decide their actions. Bill Ottman also discussed the book on The Joe Rogan Experience with Joe Rogan, highlighting Harris's rigorous approach to examining panpsychism and the complex nature of subjective experience. Across these discussions, speakers emphasized how effectively the book unpacks difficult philosophical and scientific concepts in an accessible manner.
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Lex Fridman In your book "Conscious," you describe evidence that free will is an illusion and that consciousness is use… 2
“The following is a conversation with Annaka Harris, author of "Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind," who writes and thinks a lot about the nature of consciousness and reality, especially from the perspectives of physics and neuroscience.”
“In your book "Conscious," you describe evidence that free will is an illusion and that consciousness is used to construct this illusion, convincing ourselves that we are, in fact, deciding our actions. Can you explain this? I think this is in chapter three.”
Rich Roll and I love the book congratulations on it making the New York Times bestseller list is very cool 2
“and I love the book congratulations on it making the New York Times bestseller list is very cool”
“I love the book it's great the subtitle is a brief guide to the fundamental mystery of the mind it is brief it's a a small book”
Bill Ottman yes and those you know actually Annika Harris Sam Harris's wife wrote a cool book which I also haven't read… 1
“yes and those you know actually Annika Harris Sam Harris's wife wrote a cool book which I also haven't read but I know about it um uh it's uh it's called conscious and it's all about pants psychism which is cool coming from her because she obviously is like rigorous”
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“Um and so in in my book conscious and also in this documentary series I go through these two questions.”
“and so in in my book conscious and also in this documentary series I go through these two questions.”
“the following is a conversation with Annika Harris author of conscious a brief Guide to the fundamental mystery of the mind and is someone who writes and thinks a lot about the nature of Consciousness and of reality especially from the perspectives of physics and Neuroscience”
“It's actually how I started writing my book — I began writing for myself because I needed to spend some time writing down all my thoughts to get clear about how I think about them. So, you write down a sentence, and you think, and then in the silence of paragraphs, you just see if that makes sense, and then”
“in my book I talk about if someone wakes up with amnesia if they have brain injury and suddenly have amnesia and can't remember anything about their lives can't remember their name”
“ya so it's just a little bit I mean I give in the example in my book I talk about tennis and The Binding of the sights and sounds and felt experience of hitting a tennis ball which in the world are happening at different times”
“I've actually had people tell me they had to stop reading my book halfway through because the parts on Free Will were so upsetting to them and this is something I think about a lot”