Annaka Harris

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.

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.

And the closer you look at the brain processing, the less there is a place to find where, oh, yes, it's because the system experienced that thing that enabled it to behave this way, you know, in such a more advantageous way than it could if it weren't conscious. There's no place to find that. And in fact, we find the opposite. We find that

And the closer you look at the brain processing, the less there is a place to find where, oh, yes, it's because the system experienced that thing that enabled it to behave this way, you know, in such a more advantageous way than it could if it weren't conscious. There's no place to find that. And in fact, we find the opposite. We find that

And the closer you look at the brain processing, the less there is a place to find where, oh, yes, it's because the system experienced that thing that enabled it to behave this way, you know, in such a more advantageous way than it could if it weren't conscious. There's no place to find that. And in fact, we find the opposite. We find that

many things that we've evolved to do, like get out of a dangerous situation quickly, you know, run fast, startle response, all the things, all the places we try to find where we could point to and say, okay, if this, this must have to be consciously experienced, otherwise we wouldn't be as good at it.

many things that we've evolved to do, like get out of a dangerous situation quickly, you know, run fast, startle response, all the things, all the places we try to find where we could point to and say, okay, if this, this must have to be consciously experienced, otherwise we wouldn't be as good at it.

many things that we've evolved to do, like get out of a dangerous situation quickly, you know, run fast, startle response, all the things, all the places we try to find where we could point to and say, okay, if this, this must have to be consciously experienced, otherwise we wouldn't be as good at it.

In a lot of those cases, we're now aware of what modern neuroscience considers to be unconscious brain processing and being the thing that drives the behavior before we're even aware, before it becomes a conscious experience.

In a lot of those cases, we're now aware of what modern neuroscience considers to be unconscious brain processing and being the thing that drives the behavior before we're even aware, before it becomes a conscious experience.

In a lot of those cases, we're now aware of what modern neuroscience considers to be unconscious brain processing and being the thing that drives the behavior before we're even aware, before it becomes a conscious experience.

It's largely mysterious. We don't have any idea. The things that we think we know about it, it turns out we have no evidence to believe those things. And so, you know, a lot of my work is about just getting us to square one, getting us to kind of shake some of our intuitions, um,

It's largely mysterious. We don't have any idea. The things that we think we know about it, it turns out we have no evidence to believe those things. And so, you know, a lot of my work is about just getting us to square one, getting us to kind of shake some of our intuitions, um,

It's largely mysterious. We don't have any idea. The things that we think we know about it, it turns out we have no evidence to believe those things. And so, you know, a lot of my work is about just getting us to square one, getting us to kind of shake some of our intuitions, um,

to shake them up so that we can think more creatively about it, you know, maybe do different types of science than we've been doing, because this is how all scientific breakthroughs happen. You know, each time we are kind of faced with evidence from whatever type of probing we do of the universe, we make celestial observations, you know, taking us way back.

to shake them up so that we can think more creatively about it, you know, maybe do different types of science than we've been doing, because this is how all scientific breakthroughs happen. You know, each time we are kind of faced with evidence from whatever type of probing we do of the universe, we make celestial observations, you know, taking us way back.

to shake them up so that we can think more creatively about it, you know, maybe do different types of science than we've been doing, because this is how all scientific breakthroughs happen. You know, each time we are kind of faced with evidence from whatever type of probing we do of the universe, we make celestial observations, you know, taking us way back.

And suddenly it doesn't quite make sense that the universe revolves around us. It makes more sense to see us as revolving around the sun. And that changes our intuitions about what our perceptions tell us, what the circumstance we're in. And so it takes some kind of evidence coming towards us and then also human beings who are

And suddenly it doesn't quite make sense that the universe revolves around us. It makes more sense to see us as revolving around the sun. And that changes our intuitions about what our perceptions tell us, what the circumstance we're in. And so it takes some kind of evidence coming towards us and then also human beings who are

And suddenly it doesn't quite make sense that the universe revolves around us. It makes more sense to see us as revolving around the sun. And that changes our intuitions about what our perceptions tell us, what the circumstance we're in. And so it takes some kind of evidence coming towards us and then also human beings who are