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Annaka Harris

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

Um, suddenly lots of things that seem impossible for us to understand seem a little easier to get our minds around. Um, This is usually just the first example that I start with, but there's some physicists who talk about objects that come out of the math. A 10-dimensional object, a decoract, this is just a geometric object that exists because the math says it exists.

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

Um, suddenly lots of things that seem impossible for us to understand seem a little easier to get our minds around. Um, This is usually just the first example that I start with, but there's some physicists who talk about objects that come out of the math. A 10-dimensional object, a decoract, this is just a geometric object that exists because the math says it exists.

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

Um, suddenly lots of things that seem impossible for us to understand seem a little easier to get our minds around. Um, This is usually just the first example that I start with, but there's some physicists who talk about objects that come out of the math. A 10-dimensional object, a decoract, this is just a geometric object that exists because the math says it exists.

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

Most mathematicians wouldn't say there are decoracts in the universe. It's just that that shape is a possible shape. 10-dimensional shape. There are some physicists who actually believe that if it comes out of the math, it actually does exist. It must exist.

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

Most mathematicians wouldn't say there are decoracts in the universe. It's just that that shape is a possible shape. 10-dimensional shape. There are some physicists who actually believe that if it comes out of the math, it actually does exist. It must exist.

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

Most mathematicians wouldn't say there are decoracts in the universe. It's just that that shape is a possible shape. 10-dimensional shape. There are some physicists who actually believe that if it comes out of the math, it actually does exist. It must exist.

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

And Max Tegmark is one, and there are other well-known, well-respected physicists who will say this, who have this intuition that if the math, if we can, these shapes get created by the math, they actually do exist in the universe. If consciousness is fundamental and, you know, kind of go back to that, like how many dimensions is love, right?

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

And Max Tegmark is one, and there are other well-known, well-respected physicists who will say this, who have this intuition that if the math, if we can, these shapes get created by the math, they actually do exist in the universe. If consciousness is fundamental and, you know, kind of go back to that, like how many dimensions is love, right?

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

And Max Tegmark is one, and there are other well-known, well-respected physicists who will say this, who have this intuition that if the math, if we can, these shapes get created by the math, they actually do exist in the universe. If consciousness is fundamental and, you know, kind of go back to that, like how many dimensions is love, right?

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

If we kind of change our intuitions about space and realize we're picking up on something about the structure that we're a part of, but it's not about space. And so picturing a fourth dimension, we're kind of thinking about it wrong, right? It's a little bit like picturing a color you've never seen before. It doesn't mean the color couldn't be there. It just means we don't perceive it.

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

If we kind of change our intuitions about space and realize we're picking up on something about the structure that we're a part of, but it's not about space. And so picturing a fourth dimension, we're kind of thinking about it wrong, right? It's a little bit like picturing a color you've never seen before. It doesn't mean the color couldn't be there. It just means we don't perceive it.

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

If we kind of change our intuitions about space and realize we're picking up on something about the structure that we're a part of, but it's not about space. And so picturing a fourth dimension, we're kind of thinking about it wrong, right? It's a little bit like picturing a color you've never seen before. It doesn't mean the color couldn't be there. It just means we don't perceive it.

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

And so it's not part of our conscious reality. But if a 10-dimensional object exists... if we're just talking about the physical world as we know it, we don't know how to make sense of that sentence, a 10-dimensional object.

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

And so it's not part of our conscious reality. But if a 10-dimensional object exists... if we're just talking about the physical world as we know it, we don't know how to make sense of that sentence, a 10-dimensional object.

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

And so it's not part of our conscious reality. But if a 10-dimensional object exists... if we're just talking about the physical world as we know it, we don't know how to make sense of that sentence, a 10-dimensional object.

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

If a 10-dimensional object represents a very complex type of conscious experience that arises in the universe, still it's beyond something we could picture, but it's not beyond our comprehension. I mean, we can comprehend that there are all kinds of experiences that we don't understand, don't feel, don't know about. We don't know what it's like to be a bat.

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

If a 10-dimensional object represents a very complex type of conscious experience that arises in the universe, still it's beyond something we could picture, but it's not beyond our comprehension. I mean, we can comprehend that there are all kinds of experiences that we don't understand, don't feel, don't know about. We don't know what it's like to be a bat.

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

If a 10-dimensional object represents a very complex type of conscious experience that arises in the universe, still it's beyond something we could picture, but it's not beyond our comprehension. I mean, we can comprehend that there are all kinds of experiences that we don't understand, don't feel, don't know about. We don't know what it's like to be a bat.

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

We don't know what it's like to be all kinds of creatures that we already know exist. So if the math and the physics tell us that certain structures exist and every structure that exists in the universe is at bottom level, a felt experience or many felt experiences arising, then suddenly those types of things make more sense and are easier to talk about.

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

We don't know what it's like to be all kinds of creatures that we already know exist. So if the math and the physics tell us that certain structures exist and every structure that exists in the universe is at bottom level, a felt experience or many felt experiences arising, then suddenly those types of things make more sense and are easier to talk about.