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As concise and enlightening as Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, this mind-expanding dive into the mystery of consciousness is an illuminating meditation on the self, free will, and felt experience.
What is consciousness? How does it arise? And why does it exist? We take our experience of being in the world for granted. But the very existence of consciousness raises profound questions: Why would any collection of matter in the universe be conscious? How are we able to think about this? And why should we?
In this wonderfully accessible book, Annaka Harris guides us through the evolving definitions, philosophies, and scientific findings that probe our limited understanding of consciousness. Where does it reside, and what gives rise to it? Could it be an illusion, or a universal property of all matter? As we try to understand consciousness, we must grapple with how to define it and, in the age of artificial intelligence, who or what might possess it.
Conscious offers lively and challenging arguments that alter our ideas about consciousnessโallowing us to think freely about it for ourselves, if indeed we can.
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Adi Shankara said "Only Consciousness is real, the universe is not real, the universe is Consciousness"
You have to be conscious to experience it. Simple. But to experience infinitely higher consciousness, you definitely need to meditate correctly & must have a guide/master/guru to train u in that line๐ง
Meditation aided with yogic transmission is one of such unique method in 'heartfulness meditation' try it, free for allโ
Does the chair has any inexperience ๐ฉท๐ฉต
She's Amazing!! โค๏ธ
This a great short book about this topic from a great communicator. Annaka treads the line well between scientific research and philosophy. Well done Annaka and I look forward to your documentary!
Strangely beautiful โ๏ธ๐
Sounds like scientology
If the chair or table not feel experience then how rock become lion ? Becareful in thinking environment not cognitive? D๐angerously if children learn wrong thinking
Sheโs hot
Beautiful lady.
It stems from the brain as the organ responsible but we can understand what part. It has to do with Mind (abstract), the soul (energy that gives life / lost from the body when one dies). There's so many things we don't know.
This is the first time I've even seen Sam's wife. I can't imagine a more perfect fit- listening to her sounds like listening to a female Sam Harris. Pleasant, cheerful enough, and with that sort of sly sense of humor.
There is an experience of consciousness also on a table and a chair. Before they where a tree.
That doesn't really explain why a collection of carbon molecules has consciousness… Why, when arranged in this particular order, is a bi-product of it a feeling of subjective experience, aka consciousness?
dammm she look like Gal Gadot = wonder woman 2.0 ๐๐
She's brilliant , and beautiful . Does anyone know her ethnicity ? Is she English , Spanish ? She just claims Caucasion , and that term includes English, Spanish, and lots more .
How do you ask a mute about his experience? You learn sign language and if both understand then experience can be commuted! What if the chair is having an experience but you donโt have the mean to communicate! Verbal communication is not the only means of communication which mean everything can communicate at its sub particular level
The chair and the table could be having sometype of experience. Who is to say that consciousness is not an inherent part of all matter. Kinda like gravity fields or magnetism… this is based on her newer view of the subject matter with lex.
Well, big bang is so happy now as it caused the birth of beautiful creatures like you
Iโd love to be her chair or just that chair sheโs sitting in there
Whoa…she's gorgeous
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Shes a jewish goddess ๐
โBigg Aโ Lettsss goooooo The YOUniversal INergy working wonders right now The first time I heard her was on a interview with Tom bilyeu And I been interested in her work โป๏ธ๐๐๐๐พ๐๐งผ๐ชโฌ๏ธ๐ก๐๐
It is a great book – read it. She takes all the dense conversation of her husband and his colleagues (which is great, make no mistake) but she writes in such a way they I finally get the whole thing.
I also heard our consciousness isn't in our head thats not where it comes from its outside of us, I also heard there's a one consciousness that people also talk about too and so when you explain our consciousness is basically the core of our experiences whether through our perceptions in mind or outside of us with whats happening around us. I believe its our emotions which is Energy in Motion that conducts our consciousness and are like our Morris codes casting out because we can feel energies and it creates an effect of how it attracts like how like attracts like fear attracts fear, joy attracts joy, sadness attracts sadness, anger attracts anger and victim attracts attack and so when we emit these emotions were attracting more of it or something that is in conjuction and goes along with it but we must find the balance just as the Ying yang we have to be centered within, well thats just what I've learned and still learning to make sense of all this complexity of our consciousness emotions which is our energy thats emitted out into our environment and the UniVerse which means we're all in one accord and with that we need to create a more harmonious life for a better progressive planet for ourselves and our families.
You are very beutiiful giro and Smart.
She could take about manure and ill still listen to her.
LOL…10%…you were only ALLOWED to use a fraction of gray matter…no matter ….how many books you read!!!
Damn
Imagine doing all of this work and getting where you are in your career to in the end just being known as, "Sam Harris' Wife"
I'm writing a video series on this very same subject… The algorithm is reading my mind again.
How the fuck do you know if the chair or table are NOT having an experience? Hmm? Little miss hottie smart chick lady? Are you single? Doing anything Monday? Maybe I can give you some perspectives that would make you rethink the experience of being a chair or a table.
Ben Stiller and Gal Gadot make a good partnership… ๐
The most conscious being is God … conscious of the present past and future … the inner and outer … the physical and spiritual… all existence in front of his Divine Persona is in the eternal now … as the poet allama Iqbal says โช๏ธ
stfu , wait your sam harrises wife? Keep talking
Hey is that Ben Stiller's wife?!
This becomes quite fun. The chair is a construct of our intellect. If the chair could have consciousness it most likely would not experience itself as a chair.
It appears everything that we experience is in fact a construct of our consciousness. Being as such an extension of our consciousness. Therefore everything is conscious no matter what we call it. But there may be no such thing as a chair.
Is the table or a stone not having an experience now? Well, they are, even if they can't talk about it ad infinitum ๐ What are they experiencing? Depends on what we mean with a table. Its atoms are experiencing electromagnetic force as well as a bit of gravity. The object we know as the table is a mind construct and as such may not be experiencing anything of the physical world… Well, who knows. I for one know that I don't really know. Just some thoughts here. Be still. โฎ๏ธ
What if I'm sitting on a tree right now
So does the book give any answers beyond what she just said? Usually I find anything about consciousness just ends up vague and waffly since still no one really knows how it works.
Itโs non local for sure.
Why we need to read about what is experience? ๐ Now people has started explaining what we are experiencing.
Experience is the most obvious thing happening at the moment. Please dont manipulate it. Leave it as pure as it is.
Dont make world too difficult to understand. It's actually not.
If we can't explain the most obvious thing in a simple way than its problem of our teaching method.
You are an attractive young lady
Sam did well
If you have an experience then you are in the mind still go beyond consciousness by realise that you are not mind or body
I can only dream to have a partner smart as Sam Harris or Annaka Harris
Maybe conscious and consciousness are not one in the same when it comes to awareness, but interrelated in knowing.