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  • PREVIEW: CHAPTER 10: The Future of Science

    October 28, 2025 · 5 min

    In this concluding chapter, we drop in on a talk Annaka gave at a 2023 conference titled “Treating Consciousness as Fundamental,” in which she presents alongside other LIGHTS ON guests: Lee Smolin, Donald Hoffman, Sean Carroll, and Philip…

  • PREVIEW: CHAPTER 9: Consciousness as Fundamental

    October 28, 2025 · 5 min

    At the heart of science, we face an utterly perplexing question: What is physics describing? What is it fundamentally about? What are the natural laws, laws of? Annaka explores these larger than life questions in Chapter 9 through…

  • PREVIEW: CHAPTER 8: Space and Time

    October 28, 2025 · 5 min

    In this explosive chapter, Annaka explores the concept of space, how it's constructed, and what our experiences of space might represent in reality. She speaks with two physicists, Carlo Rovelli and Lee Smolin, along with the science…

  • PREVIEW: CHAPTER 7: Memory, Meditation, and Mind

    October 28, 2025 · 5 min

    In Chapter 7, Annaka focuses on the role memory plays in both psychological continuity and in the feeling of being a “subject” of conscious experiences. Through conversations with neuroscientist Christof Koch, psychologist Susan Blackmore…

  • PREVIEW: CHAPTER 6: From Signals to Sensations

    October 28, 2025 · 5 min

    In Chapter 6, Annaka contemplates where the sensory addition work of neuroscientists, such as David Eagleman, might lead. She also explores new ways science might expand in order to address questions about consciousness. Listen to the full…

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  • PREVIEW: CHAPTER 5: The Self

    October 28, 2025 · 5 min

    In Chapter 5, Annaka walks the audience through her personal experience of attending a silent meditation retreat and dropping the illusion of self in meditation. She then speaks with two neuroscientists, Anil Seth and David Eagleman, about…

  • PREVIEW: CHAPTER 4: Plants and Parasites

    October 28, 2025 · 5 min

    Most of us share the intuition that plants aren’t conscious. But when we look more closely at plant behaviors that fall into the surprisingly similar behavioral categories we might call pain, fear, or even love, we can ask ourselves why we…

  • PREVIEW: CHAPTER 3: The Dance

    October 28, 2025 · 5 min

    In order to think more deeply about the hypothesis that consciousness is fundamental and help guide the philosophy, Annaka needs to better understand the physics and the different interpretations of quantum mechanics. So in Chapter 3, she…

  • PREVIEW: CHAPTER 2: Is Consciousness Fundamental?

    October 28, 2025 · 5 min

    Could treating consciousness as a fundamental property of the universe help us better understand any of the current theories of quantum gravity? Or, alternately, do any of the established understandings in fundamental physics rule out the…

  • PREVIEW: CHAPTER 1: The Mystery, An Introduction

    October 28, 2025 · 5 min

    In this first chapter of LIGHTS ON, Annaka provides the audience with a guided tour of the neuroscience and philosophy of consciousness. It is, in part, a review of the material in her book Conscious, but the hope is that even listeners…

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A chapter-by-chapter preview of LIGHTS ON, an audio-exclusive documentary by New York Times bestselling author Annaka Harris, available wherever you get your audiobooks. Listen to the full audio documentary here: https://lightsondocumentary.com