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What's Chava Possum Up to Today?: Consciousness

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Yesterday, I finished a brief but illuminating book about consciousness called Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind by Annaka Harris, a 110-page layman’s approach to what it means to be “conscious”. Intuition, memory, free will, decision-making, meditation, time, identity, perception, matter— Harris touches on it all. But it’s panpsychism that has captured my attention the most because it allows for a limitless understanding of consciousness.

Let's be Honest: Are Books about Writing Worth Reading?

Though I have problems with lots of books on writing, I still must read them. I must make the space for them in my life as a writer. If I don’t, I run the risk of closing myself off from the (relatively few but important) lessons that are there to be learned. We have to suffer moments of irritation, of annoyance, of boredom so we can access the moments of brilliance. That, after all, is what writing is all about.

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