Annaka Harris


Annaka Harris is an American author. Her work touches on neuroscience, meditation, philosophy of mind and consciousness. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind and the children's book I Wonder.

Career

Harris was the co-founder of the non-profit scientific education group Project Reason in 2007. She was the editor of the 2011 long-form essay and book Lying by her husband Sam Harris. She is the author of the 2013 children's book I Wonder, which is about uncertainty and the nature of reality. More recently, she is the author of the 2019 New York Times bestselling science book Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind. Key subjects of Conscious include free will, panpsychism and the hard problem of consciousness.

Personal life

Harris has been married to neuroscientist, philosopher and author Sam Harris since 2004. They have two daughters.