Annaka Harris

It's actually how I started writing my book, was just writing for myself.

I decided that I needed to spend some time writing down all of my thoughts in order to get clear about how I think about them.

And then I see if that makes sense.

And then I check it with my intuitions, which is really the scientific process.

And I really, in many ways, I feel like I'm a physicist at heart.

All of my inquiry, all of my career, everything I'm interested in, actually going back to being a child, is just amazing.

deep curiosity about how the world works, what this place is, what it's made of, how we got here, just being amazed at the fact that I'm having an experience over here and you're having one over there and we're in this moment of time and what does that all mean?

My interest in consciousness really came out of

originally an interest in physics.

And I guess that the two were always side by side and I didn't really connect them until I was older, but I've always been really interested in just understanding the nature of reality before I even had the language to describe it.

Well, and I think scientists and children who will become scientists or just kind of scientists at heart

Um, really enjoy that feeling of breaking through their intuitions.

And I remember the first time it happened, actually, I was, um, playing with marbles and, you know, marbles have all these different shapes.

Each one is unique and they're all the, it looks like there's liquid inside them and

And I remember asking my father how they got the liquid inside the glass ball.

And he said, actually, it's solid all the way through.

It's all glass.

And I had such a hard time imagining.

It just didn't seem right to me.

I was very young when I, but he's a complicated person, but he was wonderful in this way and that he would kind of entertain my curiosity.