The Predictive Mind

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Psychologist neuroscientists and theorists arguing for this idea of the kind of the predictive mind that we're all. Constantly drawing upon our knowledge or expectations, beliefs to project outwards. This kind of this prediction of the world out there and he take that to its logical conclusion it means that you know me and you right now Michael we're not experiencing the same. Reality per se and it's because of the light. Both the limits and the principles of the perceptual system of our in our interaction with the with the universe around us.

Shermer and Alderson-Day discuss the psychologist’s journey to understand the phenomenon of sensed-presence: the disturbing feeling that someone or something is there when we are alone. Using contemporary psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience, and philosophy, Alderson-Day attempts to understand how this experience is possible. Is it a hallucination, a change in the brain, or something else? The journey to understand takes us to meet explorers, mediums, and robots, and step through real, imagined, and virtual worlds.

Ben Alderson-Day is an Associate Professor in Psychology and a Fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing at Durham University. A specialist in atypical cognition and mental health, his work spans cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry, philosophy, and child development. His new book is Presence: The Strange Science and True Stories of the Unseen Other.