Annaka Harris

Maybe I misunderstood.

Yeah.

I mean, not in the way that I do.

Oh, absolutely.

Well, and this gets to an interesting point, actually, which I think a lot about, which is memory.

And we won't go into this yet, but I'll just plant a flag here that memory is...

Memory is obviously related to time, and time is something that I'm fascinated with.

And for this project I'm working on now, I've mostly been speaking to physicists who are interested in consciousness.

And it's partly because of this link between memory and time and

all of these new fascinating theories and thoughts around the different interpretations of quantum mechanics and looking at... The thing that I've always been looking for is really the fundamental nature of reality and why...

My questions about consciousness lead me to wonder if consciousness is a more fundamental aspect of the universe than we previously thought, and certainly I previously thought.

And so memory, but memory is tied to so many things.

I mean, even

Um, basic functions in nature, actually.

So, so the, the P tendril, as I mentioned, memory comes into play there and that's so fascinating.

Um, and there is no sense of self without memory, even if you're starting from scratch, as you said, with amnesia, um, if you truly couldn't lay down any new memories, um,

I think then that sense of self would begin to disintegrate because the sense of self is one of a concrete entity through time.

And if each moment, if you really were stuck in the present moment eternally, you'd basically be meditating.

And in meditation, this is a very common experience, is losing that sense of self, that sense of free will, that those illusions disappear.

more easily drop away in meditation.