Annaka Harris

No, so I think this is really a false assumption. It's a very strong intuition, one that I had my whole life and through most of my career working with scientists as well. But it goes back to one of your first questions about how did the neuroscience get me to start questioning science? whether consciousness goes deeper in nature.

So we have this strong intuition that consciousness is causal, that it's doing something. The reason why we believe it evolved is because we believe it affects behavior. But what most of the neuroscience and science in general is continuing to unveil is the fact that None of these things that we think we need consciousness for, we don't actually have any evidence to believe that.

So we have this strong intuition that consciousness is causal, that it's doing something. The reason why we believe it evolved is because we believe it affects behavior. But what most of the neuroscience and science in general is continuing to unveil is the fact that None of these things that we think we need consciousness for, we don't actually have any evidence to believe that.

So we have this strong intuition that consciousness is causal, that it's doing something. The reason why we believe it evolved is because we believe it affects behavior. But what most of the neuroscience and science in general is continuing to unveil is the fact that None of these things that we think we need consciousness for, we don't actually have any evidence to believe that.

And so in my book, Conscious, and also in this documentary series, I go through these two questions. I kind of frame this investigation through these two questions. And the first one is, can we find evidence of consciousness from outside the system? Is there any way to ever say, you know, these are the list of things. If you see them on the outside, there is consciousness on the inside.

And so in my book, Conscious, and also in this documentary series, I go through these two questions. I kind of frame this investigation through these two questions. And the first one is, can we find evidence of consciousness from outside the system? Is there any way to ever say, you know, these are the list of things. If you see them on the outside, there is consciousness on the inside.

And so in my book, Conscious, and also in this documentary series, I go through these two questions. I kind of frame this investigation through these two questions. And the first one is, can we find evidence of consciousness from outside the system? Is there any way to ever say, you know, these are the list of things. If you see them on the outside, there is consciousness on the inside.

And the second question is, is consciousness doing something? Is it driving our behavior in the way that we feel it is? we feel it must be. And so, yes, as you just described, we think, well, I have this experience of putting all these things together and then I can act very quickly.

And the second question is, is consciousness doing something? Is it driving our behavior in the way that we feel it is? we feel it must be. And so, yes, as you just described, we think, well, I have this experience of putting all these things together and then I can act very quickly.

And the second question is, is consciousness doing something? Is it driving our behavior in the way that we feel it is? we feel it must be. And so, yes, as you just described, we think, well, I have this experience of putting all these things together and then I can act very quickly.

The truth is that when you drill down on the processes in the brain and this intuition, you come up completely empty-handed. There's no reason to think that having an experience of that processing is gives you an advantage at all. Everything that we can point to, we can imagine a computer doing those things. Actually, if you just, again, take sight as an example.

The truth is that when you drill down on the processes in the brain and this intuition, you come up completely empty-handed. There's no reason to think that having an experience of that processing is gives you an advantage at all. Everything that we can point to, we can imagine a computer doing those things. Actually, if you just, again, take sight as an example.

The truth is that when you drill down on the processes in the brain and this intuition, you come up completely empty-handed. There's no reason to think that having an experience of that processing is gives you an advantage at all. Everything that we can point to, we can imagine a computer doing those things. Actually, if you just, again, take sight as an example.

My retina, my brain process light waves, process different wavelengths, are able to distinguish between the different wavelengths of light. My subsequent behavior is based on that processing. All of these things happen Um, yet for some reason that processing for me entails an experience of seeing things right at the colors of the texture of all these things.

My retina, my brain process light waves, process different wavelengths, are able to distinguish between the different wavelengths of light. My subsequent behavior is based on that processing. All of these things happen Um, yet for some reason that processing for me entails an experience of seeing things right at the colors of the texture of all these things.

My retina, my brain process light waves, process different wavelengths, are able to distinguish between the different wavelengths of light. My subsequent behavior is based on that processing. All of these things happen Um, yet for some reason that processing for me entails an experience of seeing things right at the colors of the texture of all these things.

Um, but we can imagine a computer, a camera, lots of other systems, um, plants. I talk a lot about plants in my documentary because they're, um, fascinating even on this specific issue of, um, plants. sensing light waves, sensing different frequencies of light, their behavior being adjusted based on the frequencies of light.

Um, but we can imagine a computer, a camera, lots of other systems, um, plants. I talk a lot about plants in my documentary because they're, um, fascinating even on this specific issue of, um, plants. sensing light waves, sensing different frequencies of light, their behavior being adjusted based on the frequencies of light.

Um, but we can imagine a computer, a camera, lots of other systems, um, plants. I talk a lot about plants in my documentary because they're, um, fascinating even on this specific issue of, um, plants. sensing light waves, sensing different frequencies of light, their behavior being adjusted based on the frequencies of light.

But we imagine that cameras and computers and plants can do all of that without, we don't think they must need to see, they must need to have the experience of the conscious experience to be able to do any of those things. But for some reason, we do.