#119 Meet The Inner Speech Expert Proving We Can Conjure Other Conscious Entities

Do you really inner speak? Join my Skool community and find out:
https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/aboutBen
Alderson-Day is a hallucination researcher, Professor of
Psychology at Durham, and author of the award-winning book
*Presence*. His work reveals that the line between your inner
voice, hearing voices, and deliberately creating a mind inside
your own head is far thinner than anyone assumed.Expect to learn
why not as many people truly inner speak as you might think, how
your parents' voices became the voice in your head, why writers
hear their characters talk back, what tulpamancers are and how
they build autonomous minds, what really separates inner speech
from hallucination, what Evan's LSD experience revealed about the
voice in his head, and much more…Timestamps: 00:00 Intro03:20
What everyone should know about their inner speech05:39 Is my
inner speech really me?07:30 Why some people have no inner speech
at all11:13 How your parents' voices became the voice in your
head13:34 The age your brain learns to think in words15:25 What
10 weeks of sampling your own mind reveals18:13 Peep Show and why
we think thinking means talking21:04 What Evan's inner experience
was actually like23:00 The field was written by people who talk
to themselves25:32 Why people refuse to believe other minds work
differently28:39 Why you get furious when a character's voice is
wrong in a film34:22 Reader Bank — find out what type of reader
you are37:53 Can you train yourself to have richer inner
speech?40:20 Writers who hear their characters speak42:27 What is
a tulpamancer and how did this start?45:36 How to create a
sentient being in your own mind50:20 "This sounds like you're
channelling psychosis"52:45 "It's just like hearing a voice in
the room"55:50 The time Evan didn't recognise his own voice on
LSD58:31 Would a hallucination researcher ever try
tulpamancy?...Email for sponsorship enquiries:
evan@thegiantsshoulder.comEpisodes mentioned:Russell Hurlburt
(Round 1): https://youtu.be/j0gKl-g3DNgRussell Hurlburt (Round
2): https://youtu.be/N9tO1OLdJtoGualtiero Piccinini:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIkDIPLIuRg