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

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Do you really inner speak? Join my Skool community and find out: https://www.skool.com/the-giants-shoulder-6526/about Ben 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 Intro 03:20 What everyone should know about their inner speech 05:39 Is my inner speech really me? 07:30 Why some people have no inner speech at all 11:13 How your parents' voices became the voice in your head 13:34 The age your brain learns to think in words 15:25 What 10 weeks of sampling your own mind reveals 18:13 Peep Show and why we think thinking means talking 21:04 What Evan's inner experience was actually like 23:00 The field was written by people who talk to themselves 25:32 Why people refuse to believe other minds work differently 28:39 Why you get furious when a character's voice is wrong in a film 34:22 Reader Bank — find out what type of reader you are 37:53 Can you train yourself to have richer inner speech? 40:20 Writers who hear their characters speak 42:27 What is a tulpamancer and how did this start? 45:36 How to create a sentient being in your own mind 50:20 "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 LSD 58:31 Would a hallucination researcher ever try tulpamancy? ... Email for sponsorship enquiries: evan@thegiantsshoulder.com Episodes mentioned: Russell Hurlburt (Round 1): https://youtu.be/j0gKl-g3DNg Russell Hurlburt (Round 2): https://youtu.be/N9tO1OLdJto Gualtiero Piccinini: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIkDIPLIuRg