Annaka Harris

So other animals have this sense that we don't have where they can feel intuitively the way that our eyes work to give us an intuitive sense of our environment.

We don't have to...

translate the information coming in through our eyes.

We just have a map of the external world and we can navigate it.

So many animals use a sense of magnetic north to get around, and it's an intuitive sense.

So I spoke to someone who was in this part of this experiment, and it was fascinating to hear him acquire a sense not only that he had never had, but that no human being had ever had.

So when I asked him to describe the experience,

It was challenging for him, and understandably so, because it would be like you describing sight to someone who's never seen.

But this is clearly possible, and scientists like David Eagleman and others are working on these.

And so I do think it's possible that these scientific advancements

may actually start to dovetail with the consciousness research in terms of being able to experience things we've never experienced before.

But I do think that at some level, yes, we're limited as human beings.

We may be able to find some proof or enough proof to at least understand

assume that consciousness is fundamental or, you know, who knows, one day actually believe that that's the correct scientific view of things and not really be able to get our minds around that or to understand what it means and certainly not to know what it feels like.

I mean, we don't even know what it feels like to be other creatures.

I don't know what it's like to be you.

Some of the intuitions I talked about, I mean, I just kind of, I'm taking them for granted that you and everyone knows what I'm talking about, but in terms of the science, in terms of the studies, understanding things like binding processes, understanding just a little bit about how the brain works and as far as we understand, and there's just a ton of evidence now to support that our conscious experience is

At the tail end of a lot of brain processing.

Yeah.

So just a little bit.