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Every book Annaka Harris recommended on podcasts
Across 3 podcasts. Every show Annaka Harris appears on, in one place — not just one.
Annaka Harris is an American writer whose work touches on neuroscience, meditation, philosophy of mind, and consciousness. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind and the children's book I Wonder. Across various podcast interviews, she has recommended several science and philosophy books that explore complex realities. On Modern Wisdom, Harris recommended Philip Goff's Galileo's Error, praising it for explaining the categorically different nature of studying consciousness compared to other scientific subjects. While appearing on the Lex Fridman Podcast, she recommended George Musser's Spooky Action at a Distance, highlighting it as a great science writer's exploration of quantum mechanics. Additionally, on The Rich Roll Podcast, she recommended Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time because she found it beautifully written, discussing it in relation to the concept of time and consciousness. On the same podcast, she also brought up Donald David Hoffman's book The Case Against Reality while talking about alternative theories of consciousness.
Books recommended by Annaka Harris
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Galileo's Error
Galileo's Error by Philip Goff is an exploration of panpsychism and the philosophy of mind, arguing that standard physical science struggles to account for the intrinsic nature of human consciousness.
Recommended“And actually Philip Goff has a wonderful book that that explains this very well called Galileo's Error.”
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Spooky Action at a Distance
Spooky Action at a Distance by George Musser is a science book that explores the profound and bizarre implications of quantum entanglement and non-locality.
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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The Order of Time
The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli is a popular science book that offers a poetic and mind-bending exploration of modern physics, challenging our conventional understanding of time.
Recommended“although I will say I keep recommending his book because I think it's so beautifully done Carl over Valley's new book on time called the order of time”
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The Case Against Reality
The Case Against Reality by Donald David Hoffman is a scientific exploration arguing that human perception is an evolutionary interface rather than a direct window into objective truth.
Discussed“actually Donald Hofmann is doing this work I don't know if you're aware of him he's very interesting he has a book coming out in August called the case against reality”
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Books Annaka Harris wrote
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
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| The Most Unsolvable Question In Science - Annaka Harris | Modern Wisdom | 2025-04-12 | 1 |
| #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality | Lex Fridman Podcast | 2022-10-05 | 1 |
| Annaka Harris On Consciousness | The Rich Roll Podcast | 2019-08-12 | 2 |
Other mentions (6: passing, ad reads, own books)
“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.”
“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”