Annaka Harris

If you're a physicalist, you've bought into that.

Even when you intellectually understand that, we, and I include myself in this, we still have this feeling that there's something that stands outside of the brain processing that can intervene.

And that's the illusion.

I was tweeting with someone recently, which I almost never do, but we're working in the TED documentary that I'm making right now.

We're working on the episode on free will.

So I was allowing myself to go back and forth in a way that I don't usually on Twitter.

About free will.

It was a friendly debate.

I'm going to go into the reasons why I'm not crazy about Twitter, but let's leave that for another time.

I mean, talk about how hard it is to have this conversation when we have as many hours as we like, you know, trying to do it in soundbites over Twitter.

It's a road less traveled.

That was one of the things I said to this person was, because someone chimed in and said, you said I, what do you mean by I?

And so actually that's another point I could make, which is,

First, my response to that was, well, people tend to get creeped out when I say the system that is my brain and body that we call Annika recommends.

Instead of like never saying I. Yeah.

I always refer to you as the brain and body we call Lex.

So I and you are very useful shorthand, even though at some level they're illusions.

Yeah.

They're very useful shorthand for the system of my brain, really, and my body, the whole system.

That I is useful for that.