Susan Blackmore
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Sep 27, 2026
Herman PoppleberryHOST
Did anyone try to replicate it? Ted Gortzel did in 1994.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
six hundred ninety seven residents of new jersey he found three point four per cent met the criterion and that the items clustered just as strongly with unrelated phenomena like ghost-seeing his conclusion was that the battery measures a tendency toward false memories not abductions and then blackmore susan blackmore nineteen ninety eight She tested 126 schoolchildren and 224 undergraduates and found higher indicator rates than ropers.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
Under the same rule, ordinary British students would be classified as abductees.
Herman PoppleberryHOST
She called the 3.7 million claim flatly false.
Jimmy AkinHOST
Um, now, the other thing I would say is I've read a lot of the academic literature on NDEs, and I think Rafael may be under a misimpression about what that academic literature contains, because it seems that he, um, may be under the impression that it's much more skeptical of NDEs than it actually is.
Jimmy AkinHOST
There are some skeptics who have written about NDEs, like Susan Blackmore, for example, would be an ex- would be, uh, you know, an example of that.
Jimmy AkinHOST
She's a, uh, she's a, a researcher over in the UK.
Jimmy AkinHOST
Um, and there are others too, but the skeptics actually are a pretty small group.
Jimmy AkinHOST
So lack of explanatory power is one thing.
Jimmy AkinHOST
The second thing I would say is it's all speculation.
Jimmy AkinHOST
You know, they-- the-- you will find papers, like by Susan Blackmore, um, proposing, "Well, here, maybe this brain mechanism could explain this aspect of NDEs." Like, for example, one of the commonly reported aspects of NDEs is a sense of motion through darkness towards a light.
Jimmy AkinHOST
This is often described as kind of like going down a tunnel, although not everybody uses that metaphor.
HowardHOST
While the Hmong people of Vietnam refer to this demon as Da Cho, I guess I'm not the only one who can't sleep at night.
HowardHOST
Oh, and just so you know, in an article by Susan Blackmore, a correlation was discovered between how individuals who suffer from sleep paralysis would describe aliens during close encounters and how much television they consume.
HowardHOST
Essentially, individuals who consumed less television were more likely to describe their alien abductors using more diverse descriptions than those who watched more TV.
HowardHOST
The argument was that most alien encounters are in fact sleep paralysis.
Joe KellyGUEST
There's
Jon AtackHOST
a book called Beyond the Body by Susan Blackmore, who had the chair of parapsychology at Bristol University.
Jon AtackHOST
And she, when she was a student, smoked some dope, left her body and floated over the rooftops.
Jon AtackHOST
And so she set out... to take one of the first professorships in this subject, and her whole focus was on doing this.
Dave SnowdenGUEST
Your brain fires after you've pulled it away.
Dave SnowdenGUEST
And people like Susan Blackmore and Richard Dawkins have argued that means you don't have free will, which is really foolish.
Dave SnowdenGUEST
But they're following a... effectively a Cartesian model of the human mind.
Dave SnowdenGUEST
They assume the brain has to direct all decisions.
FreddieHOST
No, it's a really big idea.
FreddieHOST
I've got to come back to the idea, again, of data having interest, because it got me thinking about an interview I did with the skeptic Sue Blackmore about memetic theory, particularly in the context of the age of AI.
FreddieHOST
You know, it was her book, The Mean Machine, I wanted to talk to her about in the context of second generation AI.
FreddieHOST
Now, in The Meme Machine, she argues, following Richard Dawkins' idea, that memes or ideas, if you prefer, obviously the word meme has changed since she wrote that book, they're like genes.