Annaka Harris on What Is Consciousness? Where Is It Located? Mysteries Unravelled

Episode 412

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 on What Is Consciousness? Where Is It Located? Mysteries Unravelled