Annaka Harris

I think in order to be a good scientist and in order to be a truthfully – let's say –

to allow yourself to be curious and honest in your curiosity.

I think it's inevitable that lots of ideas and theories and hypotheses will just sound crazy.

And that is always how we've advanced science.

And maybe, you know, nine out of 10 ideas are crazy and you,

crazy meaning they're actually not correct.

But all of, I mean, it's, as I said, all of the big scientific breakthroughs, all of the truths we've uncovered that are the earth shattering truths that we uncover, they really do sound crazy at first.

So I don't think one necessarily leads to a type of mental illness.

I see mental illness in a very different category.

And I think some people,

are more susceptible to being destabilized by this type of thinking.

And that might be a legitimate concern for some people, that kind of being grounded in everyday life

is important for my psychological health.

The more time I spend thinking about the bigger picture and outside of everyday life, the more happy I am, the more expansive I feel.

I mean, it feels nourishing to me.

It feels like it makes me more sane, not less.

I guess I don't see mental illness necessarily being linked to truth or not truth.

I think that's what conspiracy theories always provide people.

Yeah.

It's not true.