Annaka Harris

speaker

1,467 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Oct 2022 last heard Apr 2025

Annaka Harris’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

No recordings in the last 12 months.Older appearances are listed below; set an alert to hear about the next one.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · 5 Oct 2022 podcast

I will say that what I believe

At this point, I've been saying 50-50 for a long time.

I'd say now it's like 51-49 in terms of consciousness being emergent versus fundamental.

So I am not convinced of this at all.

I'm not convinced that consciousness is fundamental.

What I think is there are very good reasons to think it could be.

And essentially all of science up to this point has...

been led by the other assumption, by the first assumption that consciousness arises at some point, namely in brains.

And that's where all the science has gone.

And I think that's wonderful.

And I think it should keep on going.

And I actually think that was a more important place to start.

But I think there's a possibility that the correct assumption is that it's fundamental.

And so that's the science I support.

That's the thing I spend a lot of my time thinking about and talking to scientists

and philosophers about, and so I shouldn't give the idea that I actually have crossed over into believing this is the case, but it's the assumption I follow in my work at this point.

And there are good reasons to start with that assumption versus the other that I think we're just now starting to realize.

There are a lot of places we could go with this.

One is

There's actually work being done by people like David Eagleman.

Showing 721–740 of 1,467 · page 37 of 74