As concise and enlightening as Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, this mind-expanding dive into the mystery of consciousness is an illuminating meditation on the self, free will, and felt experience.

What is awareness? How does it occur? And why does it exist? We take our connection with getting in the globe for granted. However the very existence of awareness raises profound questions: Why would any assortment of matter in the universe be mindful? How about Conscious: A Brief Guide to the essential Mystery of the Mind are we in a position to look at this? And why should we?

Within this wonderfully accessible audiobook, Annaka Harris manuals us through the evolving meanings, philosophies, and scientific findings that probe our limited understanding of consciousness. Where will it reside, and what provides rise to it? Could it be an illusion, or a general property of most matter? Even as we make an effort to understand awareness, we must grapple with how to define it and, in the age of artificial intelligence, who or what might possess it.

Conscious offers energetic and difficult arguments that alter our ideas about consciousness-allowing us to consider freely about this for ourselves, if indeed we can.