Science’s difficult journey to try to understand consciousness | Annaka Harris: Full Interview

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Consciousness feels like the most familiar thing in the world, and yet science still can’t say what it is, where it begins, or why it exists at all.

Annaka Harris examines the assumptions shaping consciousness research, fr…