Conscious
Mentions in Episodes:
- Episode: Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #326
Podcast: Lex Fridman PodcastThe 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.
- Episode: Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #326
Podcast: Lex Fridman PodcastIn 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.
- Episode: Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #326
Podcast: Lex Fridman PodcastIt'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 you check it against your intuitions.