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Every book Annaka Harris recommended on podcasts
Key facts
- Annaka Harris has recommended or discussed 5 books on podcasts, as of April 12, 2025.
- Annaka Harris has talked about books on 3 podcasts, as of April 12, 2025.
- Those books came up in 4 episodes, as of April 12, 2025.
- The 3 books Annaka Harris has mentioned in the most episodes, as of April 12, 2025: Galileo's Error, Spooky Action at a Distance and The Order of Time.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Annaka Harris aired on April 12, 2025.
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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. Harris recommended several books during podcast interviews. On Modern Wisdom, she brought up Philip Goff's Galileo's Error to explain the categorically different nature of studying consciousness compared to other scientific subjects. While speaking on the Lex Fridman Podcast, she recommended George Musser's Spooky Action at a Distance. On The Rich Roll Podcast, Harris recommended Carlo Rovelli's The Order of Time when discussing the concept of time in relation to consciousness, and she also brought up Donald Hoffman's book The Case Against Reality while talking about theories of consciousness and reality. Additionally, she referred to her own book Conscious on the same podcast while explaining that she had shared it with scientists she expected to be critical before publication.
Books Annaka Harris recommended or discussed
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Galileo's Error
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
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
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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Conscious
Discussed“I was surprised with my book also I actually when I wrote my book before it was published I gave it to a lot of scientist the scientists I thought would be the most um critical of it”
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The Case Against Reality
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
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”