I had a fun and in-depth discussion about my new documentary project LIGHTS ON with Alex on his “Within Reason” podcast.
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Meditation and Reality
In three paragraphs, my new “short” explains why meditation practice might give us a more accurate window onto reality:
Meditation entails the difficult task of cultivating concentrated attention on one’s moment-to-moment experience—the endless stream of feelings, thoughts, and perceptions—without judging or interpreting them, or allowing them to take immediate control of our actions. In its simplest form, meditation is a skill that undercuts all our evolved drives: planning for the future, learning from the past, following our desires to eat, drink, avoid pain, etc…
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My Interview with Adam Frank on BigThink
Growing up, Annaka Harris had a restless, inquisitive mind — and terrible migraines. Which is how she developed an interest in the subject that would captivate her for most of her career: consciousness. “I was really focused on space and time and the distorted perceptions of things,” she says. “I started doing a kind of meditative practice on pain, like trying to get closer to it, and I realized I couldn’t really locate it in space.”…
My Interview on “Waking Up”
My interview with my husband, Sam Harris, on “Waking Up,” in addition to a full chapter excerpt from LIGHTS ON, Chapter 5: The Self, is available now.
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Consciousness All the Way Down: The Next Scientific Revolution?
My new article, featured in the final chapter of LIGHTS ON, is available now!
Almost a century after the paradigm shift caused by Nicolas Copernicus’s radical suggestion that the Earth orbits the Sun, our scientific grasp of the universe was once again revolutionized when the proverbial apple fell on Isaac Newton’s head. Newton opened our eyes to a deeper reality when he described gravity as a pervasive force with laws that govern the attraction of objects in motion. Albert Einstein then came along and ignited yet another mind-blowing paradigm shift for humanity to grapple with. Einstein described gravity not as a force, but as a warping of four-dimensional spacetime where spacetime is the fabric of the universe. Once more, humanity was afforded a slightly more accurate window onto the universe…