340. Ben Alderson-Day — Presence: The Strange Science and True Stories of the Unseen Other
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Illusion of the Self
The self is at the heart of when people talk about felt present in particular. There's another person in the tent with me or on the ropes or in the room, he says. The experiments fall back for really nice illustrations of what I call the presence which is like a story that I love to tell us. A German neurologist has devised an experiment where they induced these experiences by getting them to do strange movements and put their finger around this round aperture. You can see more from his paper here.
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