Conscious

This book by Annaka Harris has come up 2 times across 2 different shows: Lex Fridman, Tim Ferriss. One of those mentions was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Lex Fridman, Matt Mullenweg. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2022-03-14 and the most recent from 2022-10-05. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.

"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?