#159 — Conscious

Making Sense with Sam Harris

Waking Up with Sam Harris

Samharris, Currentevents, Politics, Ethics, Religion, Neuroscience, Science, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.6 • 29.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Sam Harris speaks with his wife, Annaka Harris, about her new book, "Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind."

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast. This is Sam Harris. Just a note to say that if you're
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0:46.9	Welcome to the Making Sense Podcast. This is Sam Harris.
0:50.0	Okay, not much housekeeping today. Just a reminder that enterprise accounts are available on the
0:56.8	waking up app. If you're interested in that or a work for a company that might be interested,
1:02.2	you can send an email to enterprise at wakingup.com. And also new features are rolling out on the app.
1:10.0	Soon you'll be able to sit in groups with friends and colleagues. There are notifications and
1:16.1	reminders that you can turn on in the app, which many people find useful. You can set a time to
1:21.3	meditate each day with a reminder and notifications will tell you when new lessons or new features
1:28.0	are hitting the app. Anyway, things are rolling along on that front. Okay, so today I have an
1:35.1	unusual podcast. My wife Anika is joining me. She's never been on the podcast before. Many of you
1:41.3	have asked to have her on. And as luck would have it, she has a book that we were eager to talk about.
1:48.9	The book is conscious, a brief guide to the fundamental mystery of the mind. And let me see her bio.
1:56.6	Anika Harris is an author, editor, and consultant for science writers. She's the author of the
2:01.7	children's book I Wonder and a collaborator on Susan Kaiser Greenland's Mindful Games activity
2:06.4	cards. Her work has appeared in the New York Times and she lives with her husband. The neuroscientist
2:12.1	author and podcaster Sam Harris and their two children. I can confirm all of those facts. The thing
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