📚 2 Books mentioned in "Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #326" of Lex Fridman Podcast
Podcast: Lex Fridman Podcast
Episode: Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast #326
Published on October 5, 2022
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!
Conscious
Buy Conscious by Annaka Harris on Amazon
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 this episode, Lex Fridman introduces Annaka Harris, the author of 'Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind.' They discuss her insights on consciousness and reality, particularly through the lenses 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.
Lex Fridman refers to Annaka Harris' book, "Conscious," while asking her to elaborate on the book's claims about free will being an illusion.
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 you check it against your intuitions.
Annaka Harris discusses her book and describes how the writing process allowed her to clarify her thoughts on consciousness.
Spooky Action at a Distance
Buy Spooky Action at a Distance by George Musser on Amazon
I posted an excerpt of George Musser’s great book 'Spooky Action at a Distance' where he talks about ways to absorb what this ADS CFT duality would mean. He gives an example of music as an analogy where two different notes can exist in three dimensions as if the other doesn’t exist because of the frequency of the sound waves.
Annaka discusses George Musser's book 'Spooky Action at a Distance', highlighting his insights into quantum mechanics and using music as an analogy to explain complex concepts such as the ADS/CFT duality.