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Annaka Harris

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Modern Wisdom
#927 - Annaka Harris - Unpacking The Mystery Of Consciousness

Well, my issue with that is that It's not a reliable, those don't tend to be reliable methods. So I think we should and we do. I think especially people who have taken meditation very seriously because that is the only tool we have. And I really see it as a tool, as a scientific tool we have for investigating our own personal experience, for investigating consciousness directly.

Modern Wisdom
#927 - Annaka Harris - Unpacking The Mystery Of Consciousness

Well, my issue with that is that It's not a reliable, those don't tend to be reliable methods. So I think we should and we do. I think especially people who have taken meditation very seriously because that is the only tool we have. And I really see it as a tool, as a scientific tool we have for investigating our own personal experience, for investigating consciousness directly.

Modern Wisdom
#927 - Annaka Harris - Unpacking The Mystery Of Consciousness

Well, my issue with that is that It's not a reliable, those don't tend to be reliable methods. So I think we should and we do. I think especially people who have taken meditation very seriously because that is the only tool we have. And I really see it as a tool, as a scientific tool we have for investigating our own personal experience, for investigating consciousness directly.

Modern Wisdom
#927 - Annaka Harris - Unpacking The Mystery Of Consciousness

And what's interesting too about meditation is that it serves the same function. It gets us to actually drop some of these false intuitions. It has that effect because when we use our attention in that way, we can actually see through some of these illusions that the brain creates for us. So the illusion of self can drop away. The illusion of conscious will can drop away.

Modern Wisdom
#927 - Annaka Harris - Unpacking The Mystery Of Consciousness

And what's interesting too about meditation is that it serves the same function. It gets us to actually drop some of these false intuitions. It has that effect because when we use our attention in that way, we can actually see through some of these illusions that the brain creates for us. So the illusion of self can drop away. The illusion of conscious will can drop away.

Modern Wisdom
#927 - Annaka Harris - Unpacking The Mystery Of Consciousness

And what's interesting too about meditation is that it serves the same function. It gets us to actually drop some of these false intuitions. It has that effect because when we use our attention in that way, we can actually see through some of these illusions that the brain creates for us. So the illusion of self can drop away. The illusion of conscious will can drop away.

Modern Wisdom
#927 - Annaka Harris - Unpacking The Mystery Of Consciousness

Even in one of the chapters of my series on space and time, I talked to physicists about space and time. And One thing that I found interesting there, and again, this is just interesting. I don't know that, you know, how much weight we need to put in it. But physicists are basically in agreement at this point that space is an emergent property, that space is not part of the fundamental story.

Modern Wisdom
#927 - Annaka Harris - Unpacking The Mystery Of Consciousness

Even in one of the chapters of my series on space and time, I talked to physicists about space and time. And One thing that I found interesting there, and again, this is just interesting. I don't know that, you know, how much weight we need to put in it. But physicists are basically in agreement at this point that space is an emergent property, that space is not part of the fundamental story.

Modern Wisdom
#927 - Annaka Harris - Unpacking The Mystery Of Consciousness

Even in one of the chapters of my series on space and time, I talked to physicists about space and time. And One thing that I found interesting there, and again, this is just interesting. I don't know that, you know, how much weight we need to put in it. But physicists are basically in agreement at this point that space is an emergent property, that space is not part of the fundamental story.

Modern Wisdom
#927 - Annaka Harris - Unpacking The Mystery Of Consciousness

And what's interesting about meditation practice is that usually comes as an insight as well to people who have been meditating for many years or experienced meditators. And there's a way in which it actually makes sense that the brain could be mapping something out for us, something that is part of the external reality that makes us feel that there is space

Modern Wisdom
#927 - Annaka Harris - Unpacking The Mystery Of Consciousness

And what's interesting about meditation practice is that usually comes as an insight as well to people who have been meditating for many years or experienced meditators. And there's a way in which it actually makes sense that the brain could be mapping something out for us, something that is part of the external reality that makes us feel that there is space

Modern Wisdom
#927 - Annaka Harris - Unpacking The Mystery Of Consciousness

And what's interesting about meditation practice is that usually comes as an insight as well to people who have been meditating for many years or experienced meditators. And there's a way in which it actually makes sense that the brain could be mapping something out for us, something that is part of the external reality that makes us feel that there is space

Modern Wisdom
#927 - Annaka Harris - Unpacking The Mystery Of Consciousness

directly in the way that we experience it, where we may be perceiving something, you know, fundamental, a fundamental structure of the universe that is not really about space in the way that we perceive it. And now I'm remembering that's when I had that conversation with Jan 11 about love, where we were talking about, we were talking about something completely different.

Modern Wisdom
#927 - Annaka Harris - Unpacking The Mystery Of Consciousness

directly in the way that we experience it, where we may be perceiving something, you know, fundamental, a fundamental structure of the universe that is not really about space in the way that we perceive it. And now I'm remembering that's when I had that conversation with Jan 11 about love, where we were talking about, we were talking about something completely different.

Modern Wisdom
#927 - Annaka Harris - Unpacking The Mystery Of Consciousness

directly in the way that we experience it, where we may be perceiving something, you know, fundamental, a fundamental structure of the universe that is not really about space in the way that we perceive it. And now I'm remembering that's when I had that conversation with Jan 11 about love, where we were talking about, we were talking about something completely different.

Modern Wisdom
#927 - Annaka Harris - Unpacking The Mystery Of Consciousness

We were talking about string theory and different interpretations of quantum mechanics. And yeah, different dimensions of space. And could there be 10, 11, 12 or more dimensions of space? And I was talking about how, you know, we have no intuitions as human beings for anything like that. We're just like, where would that space be? We can't do that.

Modern Wisdom
#927 - Annaka Harris - Unpacking The Mystery Of Consciousness

We were talking about string theory and different interpretations of quantum mechanics. And yeah, different dimensions of space. And could there be 10, 11, 12 or more dimensions of space? And I was talking about how, you know, we have no intuitions as human beings for anything like that. We're just like, where would that space be? We can't do that.

Modern Wisdom
#927 - Annaka Harris - Unpacking The Mystery Of Consciousness

We were talking about string theory and different interpretations of quantum mechanics. And yeah, different dimensions of space. And could there be 10, 11, 12 or more dimensions of space? And I was talking about how, you know, we have no intuitions as human beings for anything like that. We're just like, where would that space be? We can't do that.

Modern Wisdom
#927 - Annaka Harris - Unpacking The Mystery Of Consciousness

Not only can we not go in higher dimensions, but we actually can't conceive of two-dimensional space, even though we kind of feel like we can, because we can imagine a plane, like a very thin plane. But the truth is, if you make that plane thinner and thinner, We can't imagine a plane with truly no depth. That's not something that's imaginable to us.

Modern Wisdom
#927 - Annaka Harris - Unpacking The Mystery Of Consciousness

Not only can we not go in higher dimensions, but we actually can't conceive of two-dimensional space, even though we kind of feel like we can, because we can imagine a plane, like a very thin plane. But the truth is, if you make that plane thinner and thinner, We can't imagine a plane with truly no depth. That's not something that's imaginable to us.