Annaka Harris
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1,467 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Oct 2022
last heard Apr 2025
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It gets you to ask that question in a deeper way.
And then I kind of found this alternate, I don't know if other people have done this, but
I found this alternate use for it, which is even more useful to me, which is I'm able to do it sometimes.
I'm able to just sit with someone and get my imagination going and imagine there really is no conscious experience there in that person.
And what happened for me the first few times I was able to do this is
it reminded me exactly of how I feel when I look at complex plant behavior and other behaviors in nature where I assume there's no conscious experience.
And to me, it just flips everything on its head.
It just gets you to be able, it gets you to be open to possibilities that you were closed to before.
And I think that's useful.
I mean, in so many ways, it's the most important role.
I don't think any of these realizations, I mean, if anything, I think it enhances it.
but I don't think they, I mean, it kind of goes back to the levels of usefulness.
Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
For me, the more time I spend practicing meditation, seeing through these illusions, the more poignant my conscious experience becomes.
And love is obviously one of the most powerful and one of the most positive experiences we have.
And
I don't know, there's just, whatever its cause is, there's just something miraculous about it in and of itself and for itself.
And you recognize it when you have it.
When you have a great collaboration, I mean, in science, but also in other areas.
In this TED production I'm working on, I just happened to...
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