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Spirits, Ghosts & The Strange New Neuroscience of Unseen Others | Ben Alderson-Day

Ben Alderson-Day is a cognitive scientist and author of the book Presence: The Strange Science and True Stories of the Unseen Other. In this podcast, we discuss the experience of sensing presences even in otherwise healthy people, why such experiences are more likely in extreme situations, how the brain constructs a sense of another being, how to think about the metaphysical status of spirits and ghost encounters, how this capacity shapes everyday reality, how AI might induce the feeling that someone is really there, and much more... Timestamps: 00:00 The Strange Science of the Unseen Other 03:38 The Feeling of Presence of Beings 06:15 The Third Man effect in extreme environments and survival situations 11:46 The psychological function of presence capacity 18:46 Disrupting presence with the "presence robot" 22:20 Are Spirits and Ghosts Real? 27:04 Presence as an underlying component of everyday cognition 31:28 Representing others and virtual social cognition 35:59 The role of stereotypes and generalized models 38:35 Anthropomorphism and presence in interactions with large language models 42:28 Clinical implications and future research on AI and psychosis Find Ben: •Presence: The Strange Science of the Unseen Other •Reader Bank — https://readabank.org •Hearing the Voice — 10-year project at Durham University (funded by the Wellcome Trust) •Discovery Research Platform Find Jack: • Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0DGVMa1... • X:   / jack_roycroft   • Substack: https://substack.com/@jackroycroftshe...