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Annaka Harris

Disciplines:
philosophy of mind
writing
consciousness
children's education

Summary

American author and editor — married to Sam Harris — whose Conscious presents the hard problem of consciousness in accessible form, arguing that consciousness may be far more pervasive in nature than conventional scientific assumptions suggest.

Core Contribution

Provides the most accessible popular treatment of the hard problem of consciousness and panpsychism — making the philosophical question of why there is subjective experience at all legible to general readers — and presents the possibility that consciousness is a fundamental feature of reality.

Notable Works & Achievements

Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind

I Wonder

Historical Influences

David Chalmers Christof Koch

Intellectual Lineage

Philosophy of Mind Popular Science Writing Sam Harris Circle

Contemporaries & Peers

Sam Harris Philip Goff Anil Seth

Minds Influenced

Popular consciousness discourse MW consciousness content

Intellectual Posterity

Conscious

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