Today it's great to have Anika Harris on the podcast. Anika is an author whose work touches

on neuroscience, meditation, philosophy of mind, and consciousness. She's author of two

books, Conscious, a brief guide to the fundamental mystery of the mind, and the children's book

I wonder. Anika is also a volunteer for inner kids, teaching mindfulness meditation

to children and schools. Anika, so excited to chat with you today on the psychology.

Yeah, I'm excited to chat with you too. Hi, Spont.

Why don't we wonder about consciousness together today? How about it?

Okay. Yes. Sounds good. It looked like there were a lot of interesting questions that came

in on your Twitter feed when you were consulting your crowd.

Well, you have a lot of fans. You have a lot of fans. A lot of people on my followers who

are very interested in consciousness and surrounding issues, which we'll cover today.

When it comes to consciousness, there really are a lot of mysteries. We're not talking about

cheese, where it's like, okay, we get the molecular structure of cheese. You can get the molecular

structure of consciousness and still not understand what consciousness is.

Actually, at this point, you can't get the molecular structure. I mean, hopefully it's

something that's better since we're doing. Yeah, we don't have any of it. We don't know.

Not even there yet. Yeah, we're not. Yeah.

Well, maybe that would be a good starting point in the just talking about a little

difference between the soft, the hard problem of consciousness versus the soft problem.

Conscious, can you kind of just describe it too? Yeah. I think it's usually put more in terms

of the hard problem versus the easy problems, which is a joke. It's a sarcastic comment that

they're easy problems at all in neuroscience. But so the idea is that the so-called easy problems

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