
340. Ben Alderson-Day — Presence: The Strange Science and True Stories of the Unseen Other
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Left Hemisphere Interpreter
The power of narrative is still there, you know, in terms of being able to kind of gloss over the gaps and come up with some kind of story that makes sense. The ability of words to kind of smooth out the kinks should never be underestimated. I think sometimes we think about, or people literally talk about a narrative self, but you know that through line, through time. But sometimes we come to like believe that story. And we don't know what we've forgotten.
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