The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Annaka Harris

"Everything that we care about, everything we experience, everything we know, we know it through our conscious awareness of it."

Consciousness is everything we know, everything we experience. The mystery at the heart of consciousness lies in why our universe – despite teeming with non-conscious matter – is configured in a way where it's having a felt experience from the inside.

Modern neuroscience suggests that our intuitions about consciousness are incorrect. And so, it's possible that we've been thinking about consciousness the wrong way entirely, says bestselling author Annaka Harris.

0:00 The Hard Problem of Consciousness
0:39 Defining consciousness
2:20 Is consciousness more basic in nature?
4:29 Thomas Nagel’s perspective
6:02 Consciousness vs. thought
7:06 Decision making processes