Episode · Lex Fridman Podcast · 2022-10-05
Lex Fridman & Annaka Harris: books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #326
#326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality
Annaka Harris is the author of Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind.
Lex Fridman recommended Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder and Stalin and Europe by Timothy Snyder and others, and discussed Conscious by Annaka Harris and The Case Against Reality by Donald David Hoffman. Annaka Harris recommended Spooky Action at a Distance by George Musser.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Conscious
Discussed“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.”
Where to get it
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Bloodlands
Recommended“bloodlands by Timothy Snyder probably the most upsetting book I've ever read”
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Stalin and Europe
Recommended“bloodlands by Timothy Snyder probably the most upsetting book I've ever read”
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The Case Against Reality
Discussed“yes uh in his bookcase against reality yeah many more than a few”
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Spooky Action at a Distance
Recommended“George Musser wrote a great book spooky action at a distance um and he talks about he's he's a great science writer and he talks about ways to kind of absorb what this would mean”
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Other mentions in this episode (11) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Conscious
“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”
Plugged Conscious
“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”
Plugged Conscious
“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”
Plugged Conscious
“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”
Plugged Conscious
“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”
Passing Bloodlands
“and then so your book and then and then it has the rise and fall of the Third Reich uh bloodlands by Timothy Snyder probably the most upsetting book I've ever read”
“and then so your book and then and then it has the rise and fall of the Third Reich”
“and then so your book and then and then it has the rise and fall of the Third Reich uh bloodlands by Timothy Snyder probably the most upsetting book I've ever read”
Passing Stalin and Europe
“and then so your book and then and then it has the rise and fall of the Third Reich uh bloodlands by Timothy Snyder probably the most upsetting book I've ever read”
Passing The Gulag Archipelago
“I read sojunitsen's um go like archipelago and what else”
Passing Red Famine
“red famine which is um um and applebum is that that hurt”