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Annaka Harris

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“talking like in terms of psychic phenomena you're talking in terms of just absorbing the information of the past and education and Just kind of our collective human project that gets in throughout our lives.”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm part of the universe. Yeah, there's a. Right here in this little point in space and time, there is an experience of the universe.”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To nature in general, and that there's something so beautiful about consciousness, about the fact that it's not just a dead universe with atoms doing Least in this one instance, there is a felt experience of the universe.”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When you're just watching what your conscious experience actually is, you realize that it's not doing all of the things you usually feel like it's doing. And so the thoughts really just arise in much the same way that a sound or a sight or a feeling, you know, maybe your leg starts to hurt. When you're just watching moment by moment by moment pain arises, bird chirping arises, a thought arises, a feeling arises. You're just kind of watching it all unfold. And there's something really beautiful about that.”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What you realize is the source of it is not your conscious experience. And that's the important insight. And that's the insight. And so there are many insights you can have in meditation that align with the science, which is what's really fascinating because it doesn't have to be that way. Like I can imagine finding meditation to be extremely useful and helping me with anxiety and all the rest and having all kinds of insights that turn out to not be true. But the interesting thing is that these insights actually turn out to be true. And so that is one of them is the”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Your default mode network. And without necessarily intellectually thinking yourself out of free will, it naturally kind of drops away. And so when you're under the spell of this illusion that you are the author of your thoughts and your conscious experience is driving all of your behavior, and there's this eye that stands somewhere near your brain but is not your brain that stands free of the physical world is the thing generating the thoughts. When you're meditating, that quiets down and can kind of quiet down completely so that your experience is just of the next thing arising in your conscious awareness”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, the thing I was responding to that you wrote. I think I was partly. Picking up on the part of you that would really get a lot out of a meditation retreat was my way of beginning that conversation. That experience you had of a thought coming from somewhere else, when you spend an extended period of time paying close attention to your moment-to-moment experience, that's how all of your thoughts appear to you. And it's really beautiful because you're letting go just through the practice of meditation. You're quieting down.”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They get really good at letting things just be and focusing on the present moment. And you might come out with some epiphany about what you should do next.”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Some meditation Is always silent, or actually at least the one I would recommend you do is a silent meditation retreat five days.”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You would really enjoy a meditation retreat. I mean, you would also not enjoy it. It would be hard because you wouldn't go nuts. It would be hard. but you would get it”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You're usually paying attention to the breath, but there's always some focus of concentration. And the focus can even be just an open awareness, just watching your mind go, just what comes into your experience. And part of that is the mind. Part of it is the external world. You hear a sound, you think a thought, you feel a feeling, your cheek is itching. Am I going to scratch it? Am I not going to scratch it? Sounds like the most boring thing in the world. And what's interesting is... Paying close attention to the most boring thing in the world is incredibly fascinating, noticing that each breath, no two breaths are the same, that time keeps moving, that your thoughts keep appearing. It's a spiritual practice for”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I'm not really doing anything. I mean, the exercise is really so simple. It's just paying attention to your present moment experience. And it's an extremely challenging thing to do. It's not the natural state of the brain. It's an exercise in concentration, which is why athletes and other people who spend a lot of time needing to focus intensely find it so useful. I mean, it's really a focus, a concentration practice, but all it is really, I mean, there are different ways, there are different methods, but it really is quite simple at its core, which is just paying close attention to your present moment experience. And so in Vipassana, which is what I've mostly been trained in,”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Work not work in general thinking about the deep questions, thinking about the nature of the universe, thinking about consciousness, even meditation. I mean, I got into meditation. Me, it's interesting. To me, I think a lot of meditators feel this way about it, but I think just I'm thinking about it from the perspective of someone who hasn't meditated before, but it feels like a scientific experiment. It feels like it's the same physicist in me who was drawn to meditation because the experience is one of getting closer to your experience and asking similarly deep questions like what is time? What does that even mean? What do I mean by time? What does it feel like? What is a thought is one of the most interesting questions to me.”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“For a lot of them psychedelics. Yes. And what their experience was, and if that's informed. You know, actually, initially in the 50s, I want to do more research on this and look into it. But in the 50s, there were some studies that were being done with scientists who there were hundreds of scientists they put into the study. Where they were on the brink of some kind of discovery, where they were stuck, so they had been doing research and they were stuck and they used psychedelics to come up with an answer to find a path forward. And it was extremely useful for that.”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think it's actually important for this work. It's one of the questions I ask everyone I talk to for this series, many of them, I won't be able to use that audio.”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Addiction as well, which is interesting. That's not something I'm personally familiar with. So that was a surprise to me. But yeah, I mean, it's just wonderful that we.”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That the universe, in a sense, is just an endless recycling. And I don't know, it's hard to describe. But we also know on the other side that depression and anxiety when people are experiencing those things, the default mode network is more active. And so it's this cycling and this kind of obsessive cycles of thinking about oneself that is a huge part of the suffering in the first place. And so... One thing that surprising to me about the research is that I may be fudging the data, but it's something like 80% of people who are treated for PTSD after one Only one session are cured of their PTS.”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Experience I had and the experience that many people have that is so transformative is this feeling that's very hard to describe, but it's a feeling of being one with the universe and that comes with, it's kind of all one feeling that is again hard to put into words, but there's this feeling that everything is okay. And I'd never had that feeling before in my life. And when I took psychedelics, that feeling would stay with me for months. And I never understood why. And it was always fascinating to me, but it was as if I was glimpsing a deeper truth of the world that It's all one thing we're all connected. There's no sense that there could even be a feeling of loneliness. It was just this visceral sense of being one with everything and that everything was okay, that all the things I was afraid of, even death.”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Who was doing this research? It was the first time I became aware that the research was happening, and I'd already had my own experiences before that. And so it made perfect sense to me that this would work. It was still astonishing to see the results, to see how successful the work is so much of the time. But it doesn't surprise me. It makes sense. And it's actually in line with all of these other things. quieting down the default mode network One of the things that's so transformative about taking something like psilocybin and everyone's experience is different, it can vary each time you take it even in a”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I've been following this research from the beginning when they were doing end of life. Yeah, they started with end of life patients. I don't know, maybe 20 years ago. I met at its head conference, I met one of the doctors who was.”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“At this point in time, based on my understanding, I think once you've tried, and the truth is that meditation is not often not helpful for those things, it can actually exacerbate them. And the most promising thing that I have seen is this research into psychedelic therapy-assisted psychedelic.”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Hype was a lot harder than it needed to be And it wasn't about keeping everything just so. You know, there's another state my brain can be in where I don't have to work so hard to be okay Meditation was probably the most. Meditation and psychedelic experiences were probably the most transformative. But a lot of these things, I'm lucky that I didn't, my anxiety and depression never really got in the way of my living my life, of enjoying my life. I mean, there were struggles. It made life harder for me. But something like treatment resistant depression or severe PTSD, these are things that”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To a point. It was very helpful. I mean, I think talk therapy is one tool and can be helpful for, I mean, it depends on the therapist, depends on the type of therapy, but I found it to be one piece and probably not the biggest piece, actually. But I think I wish I had discovered medication sooner that would have made a big difference in my life.”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, absolutely, yeah. Because free will, I mean, I think part of the function of the experience of it is learning. I mean, I think we can still learn without being under the illusion that we have free will.”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I have, I mean, there are so many levels to it, but if I'm thinking about difficult things that I've experienced, different traumas in my life, when I take a step back and kind of get this bird's eye view of kind of the mystery of this unfolding of the universe and the fact that it happened the way it happened and whether it could have happened another way, there's no going back. That is, that's the way it unfolded. Being able to surrender to that, I think, is very psychologically healthy and prevents us from, I mean, I think regret is one of the most toxic loops we can get into.”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To remind ourselves is where I start out my book just As a way to inspire awe and to get yourself out of your everyday life and see the big picture, which can be just a relief, but also helps you feel more connected to the universe and to something larger than ourselves. And so I see these intuitions reminding ourselves that these intuitions are illusions in the same way, that most of the time they're not useful. They are useful if we want to think about a science of consciousness. They're useful for a whole range of neuroscientific studies. And I think they can be incredibly useful in the same way that lying on the ground and feeling the gravity pushing you against a sphere and realizing you're floating in the middle of outer space, it gives me the same feeling to realize. And so”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It still feels to most of us most of the time. I mean, our intuitive sense, we're not thinking about whether the Earth is flat or a sphere, but we behave as if it's flat. And that makes the most sense. And it would be exhausting to keep reminding ourselves as we walk down the street, like it feels flat, but it's not flat. There's just no reason to do it. It's not useful in that moment. If you're building a house, you can build it as if the world is flat. But, you know, of course, so there are psychological reasons to bring it into view and maybe even spiritual reasons to bring it into view. And then there's just like usefulness. So if you're building a rocket to the moon, you better understand the geometry of the earth. Even if you're flying an airplane, if you're an airplane pilot, you have to be aware of the truth of our situation. And then I think there are other places where it's interesting.”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Sure. And that's actually part of what I was when I wanted to kind of talk a little bit about the levels of usefulness of being aware of these different illusions because I would say most of the time in our daily lives, the types of illusions that I'm interested in shaking up are not useful to remind ourselves of most of the time. I really think there are different levels of usefulness to Thinking about and reminding ourselves of the places where we have false intuitions. And so I often use The analogy of living on a sphere. So”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, you know, it depends on what level we're talking. I think, you know, at a fundamental level, I don't believe anything could be different.”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think they're part of the same process and I think It's kind of necessary to accept What you're experiencing and what the situation is and how you feel and the types of thoughts and patterns you tend toward in order to make whatever changes can be made. So I do think it's kind of part of the same process.”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“because they were basically living my dream childhood. They had none of the things that I thought were the cause of the psychological suffering that I experienced. There was none of that and they have a lot of the same. They struggle with a lot of the same anxiety and panic attacks. What I realized was How much we're kind of born into the world with these things that we struggle with and with our strengths and with all of that. And of course, then if you have an abusive childhood, if you're someone who tends to be anxious and sensitive and empathic, and then you're born into an abusive situation, that's obvious terrible combination. But I never acknowledged or realized how strong just the genetics and the wiring.”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's what I was just going to say again. But I think, I mean, so he was not diagnosed. I think he had borderline personality disorder and was emotionally abusive. And I thought that all of the ways I experienced the world and all of my anxiety and my sensitivities, I thought almost all of that, if not all of that, was because of these experiences I had growing up and trauma that I experienced as a child. And obviously those things play a part. But what I realized after going through postpartum and then the thing that was extremely informative to me was having my own children.”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Taking prozek. And I became very interested in, I mean, I was already working with neuroscientists, I was always already interested in consciousness in the brain. And it just, you know, this kind of rattled other intuitions for me in terms of how our child, how our childhoods shape who we become, because I had been convinced my father was”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Is this how other people feel? Is this how that, like the things that I just always thought of myself, I'm really sensitive? I'm an introvert. I need a lot of time to myself. And all of these things that I felt like, I mean, it's always very high functioning. And in some ways, you know, I was a professional dancer. And I think that was the type of therapy for me. There was the obsessing over. The training and dancing nine hours a day and all of that, I now look back on and see how much that was therapeutic for me and that I was kind of treating something. But yeah, it was just this experience of treating an anxiety disorder that caused me to realize that I had one. I didn't know I could feel the way I felt.”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Taking all of that anxiety away to recognize how much I had been grappling with it my entire life. And it first started coming in the form of realizations like, oh, is this how other people?”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Disorder really until I was an adult and ended up taking prozac. I took an SSRI for postpartum. And it was fascinating to me. I ended up interviewing my psychiatrist because I was so fascinated in the whole thing once I was on the other side of it, just what I had been through, how different I felt during that period of time, and then how quickly the medication made me feel like myself again. I had come out the other side of the experience of postpartum and was going to start tapering off the medication. And in this window where I no longer had postpartum depression, And hadn't yet gone off the SSRI, I realized. That life was not only a lot easier than when I had postpartum, but it was easier than it had ever been. And it took”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But then I suffered from postpartum depression after both of my daughters, after both pregnancies That was a very different experience from anything I've ever experienced, but clearly I had a predisposition towards suffering from something like that. Anyway, it really wasn't until I fully recovered from the second experience of postpartum depression that I realized. That I had been suffering on some level my whole life. And I think I always knew I thought of myself as a very sensitive person, an empathic person. I mean, I've been in therapy for 10 years. I knew I Had a lot of anxiety. I would never have denied that I had a lot of anxiety. I just didn't realize it crossed over into”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, this is maybe too long an answer. So I've experienced it in different forms. So it was my, I would say my depression has almost always mostly taken the form of anxiety. I didn't realize how anxious I was, I think until I was an adult. So I was always very functional. I think, you know, all the positive sides of suffering in that way, I think I'm a little OCD as.”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Believe that, and I also think whatever the truth is, we have to find a way to. Maintain civil society and love and all the things that are important to us.”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I totally agree. Yes. But in this case I think there are. The concerns are legitimate concerns, and I have them myself for how people respond. I've actually had people tell me they had to stop reading my book halfway through because the parts on free will were so upsetting to them And this is something I think about a lot because that kind of breaks my heart. I don't. Because I see this potential for these realizations bringing. Levels of well being that many people don't have access to. I think it's important to talk about them in ways that override what can be an initial Fear or kind of spooky, spooky quality that can come out of these realizations.”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We want to find a truth out of that downward spiral and not. Story that we have to tell ourselves that isn't true. And the fact is, we have these facts available to us that with the right framing and the right context. Looking at the truth actually provides us with that psychological feeling we're searching for. And I think that's important to point out. I think humans.”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Being a part of something larger than yourself. And this is intrinsically positive for human beings. And even just in our everyday lives and choices and what we do for work, feeling part of something larger than yourself is the way people describe spiritual experiences and the way many positive psychological states are framed. And so there's that piece of it.”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Mode network is quieted down when people lose a sense of self in meditation and on psychedelic drugs in therapy. There is a feeling that people describe of an extremely positive feeling of being connected to the rest of nature. And so that's a piece of it that I think if you haven't had the experience you wouldn't necessarily know that would be a part of it. But truly having that insight that you're not the self you feel you are immediately your experiences are embedded in the universe and you are a piece of everything and you see that everything is interconnected. And so rather than feeling like a lonely eye in this bigger universe, there's a sense of”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The truth is that for the most part, the sense of self is kind of at the core of human suffering because it feels as if we are separate from the rest of nature. We're separate from each other. We're separate from the illusion that I referenced of feeling like, you know, we have these thoughts that are brain-based thoughts, but then the eye swoops into to make a decision. In some sense, it goes so deep that it's as if the eye is separate from the physical world. And that separation plays a part in depression, plays a part in anxiety, even plays a part in addiction. So at the level of the brain, I think stop me if I'm repeating myself, but we started talking about the default mode network. And so we actually know that when the default”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But it can't, but it's also a source of awe of, I mean, so many people now use that fact to... Inspire a positive response to inspire creativity and Curiosity and awe and all of these things that are so useful for human well-being.”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If you're focused on the details The joy and the pleasure and for lack of a better word, spirituality out of our experience as human beings. And I actually think for these illusions like free will and self, the reverse is true. I actually think they can give us their reasons and bases for feeling more connected to each other and to the universe, for spiritual experiences, for Even just on a more basic level for increasing our well being, just in terms of our psychology of lowering rates of depression and anxiety. And I actually think these realizations can be extremely helpful to people.”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Absorb these facts and realize that they don't, it doesn't necessarily take away the things from us that we fear. I've heard people say this is talked about common point to make or question to ask a scientist, can you still enjoy chocolate if you're a molecular biologist and is a molecular biologist that would be the one who would understand how we experience chocolate? But anyway, if you”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Truths that are going to be difficult for us to accept. And I actually think there are really positive ways to view these truths that we're uncovering. And even though they can be initially kind of jarring and even destabilizing and creepy, I think ultimately there's actually a lot It can have a positive effect on human psychology and a whole range of things that I and others have experienced and that I think it's important for us to talk about because you can't hide from the truth, especially in science, right? Like it just, it will reveal itself. And if this is true, I think not only for better understanding the universe and nature, which is kind of my primary passion, it's important for us to”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And just in general, that consciousness is not the thing that we feel it is, which is driving the behavior that is actually at the tail end of it. And so a lot of decision-making processes, and there are studies that are more controversial, and I don't usually like to cite them, although if you want to talk about them, we can. They're super interesting and intuition shattering. But there are now studies specifically about free will to see if there are markers at the level of the brain they can see what decision you're going to make and when you make that decision. And I think the neuroscience inevitably is just going to get better. And so part of the reason I'm so passionate about this, I mean, there's the science and there's just the curiosity that drives me of wanting to understand how the universe works. But I actually see a lot of the neuroscience presenting us with”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They built a rochambeau rock paper scissors computer game that was unbeatable based on this glitch that you can present in binding by training someone if you introduce a delay slowly enough then the computer can get the information before it responds, but you still have the experience that you're both throwing out your rock or paper scissors at the same time. But in actuality, the computer Saw your choice before it makes its choice. And it's in this window of milliseconds where you don't notice it.”
2022-10-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #326 – Annaka Harris: Free Will, Consciousness, and the Nature of Reality · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source