412: Annaka Harris on What Is Consciousness? Where Is It Located? Mysteries Unravelled
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2021
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: http://bit.ly/annakaharris412
Annaka Harris (IG: @annakaharrisprojects) is the New York Times bestselling author of CONSCIOUS: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind.
She is an editor and consultant for science writers, specializing in neuroscience and physics, and her work has appeared in The New York Times.
Annaka is the author of the children’s book I Wonder, a collaborator on the Mindful Games Activity Cards, and a volunteer mindfulness teacher for the Inner Kids organization.
In this episode, we discuss:
- As a kid, Annaka had a deeper sense of reality
- How Annaka got involved teaching meditation to children
- Integrating mindfulness into the school system
- Children learn to meditate easier than adults
- Practice meditating in the midst of everyday life
- Annaka’s early influence into meditation
- Why people have a hard time sticking to a meditation practice
- The emotions Annaka experienced on her first 5-day silent meditation retreat
- A radical shift is timeless
- Consciousness... the fundamental mystery of the mind
- Moving beyond panpsychism
- Consciousness as a felt experience
- The Integrated Information Theory
- The combination problem
- What is binding?
- Our conscious experience is lagging behind
- Free will vs. conscious will
- Brain processing is another part of nature
- When you see conscious will as an illusion
- How COVID is physically affecting the brain
- Your brain is always processing
- The location of consciousness
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Annaka Harris - Conscious (book)
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Dan Harris - Meditation For Fidgety Skeptics (book)
Annaka Harris - Consciousness Isn’t Self-Centered (article)
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on the Ultimate Health podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Just as you were describing the state of things, |
| 0:05.8 | I could start to get the positive experience first |
| 0:09.7 | of really seeing it as a realization |
| 0:13.0 | that you are not separate from the universe. |
| 0:15.8 | We really walk around feeling like there's me, |
| 0:19.5 | I mean, forget about our connections with other people, |
| 0:21.3 | but there's me and then there's the outside world. |
| 0:24.0 | And even nature, you know, we enjoy nature, |
| 0:26.6 | we go for hikes, we think of ourselves |
| 0:29.0 | as being separate from nature. |
| 0:31.0 | And we rarely have the visceral experience of the fact |
| 0:34.2 | that we are nature, we're part of nature, |
| 0:38.4 | we are embedded in nature. |
| 0:40.6 | And there is in many ways no sense |
| 0:44.6 | in which we can separate ourselves. |
| 0:46.1 | I mean, even you and I have been drinking water |
| 0:47.7 | this whole time, right? |
| 0:49.5 | And the exchange of ideas, all of that, |
| 0:51.6 | like this conversation has changed both of our brains. |
| 0:54.3 | We are embedded in nature in a universe |
| 0:57.6 | that is all one thing, essentially. |
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