# Susan Blackmore

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How much should we consider the role of moral luck?

The Channel 4 documentary, ‘Hitler's DNA: Blueprint of a Dictator’ has carried out a controversial genetic analysis of the Nazi leader. The test shows "very high" scores - in the top 1% - for a predisposition to autism, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. This not a diagnosis, however, and there ha…

Episode #442

Mike asks what is really happening when people report 'out of body experiences' and how we know. Meanwhile, Alice has to handle a job interview with a dislocated jaw. Watch Susan Blackmore's excellent talk on the science of out of body experiences for QED 2016 over on YouTube. You can sign up for t…

Memes

“Oi Mista! You me dad?” …The evocative phrase heard around the world thanks to a beautiful little thing called memes. As per one definition by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, the meme is a unit of cultural transmission that can be perpetuated and remixed for all eternity. These nifty visual…

Memes: Viruses of the Mind?

Gangnam style, Lolcats, and Chuck Norris’ superhuman feats are all memes – units of cultural transmission – that spread through the internet. But when the term was originally coined, memes were posited as vehicles of a kind of evolution, similar to genes and biological evolution. So are the memes t…

Ep. 7: If There Is No Self… Who Are You? A conversation with Dr. Susan Blackmore

In this episode of Beyond 80%, host Ryan Olexson explores the profound nature of consciousness with Dr. Susan Blackmore, a psychologist and philosopher renowned for her work on out-of-body experiences and the nature of the self. Dr. Blackmore recounts her own transformative experiences and discusse…

A NEW DAWN

The Mind-at-Large Project is a three-year conference series that investigates the place of consciousness in the cosmos. The first gathering, “A New Dawn,” inaugurates our unfolding inquiry and will be held fully online from April 15–17, hosted by the Center for Process Studies. LEARN MORE and REGIS…

Replicators—The Pandoran Children of Emergence

This episode explores Susan Blackmore's concept of Temes and the importance of replicators when understanding emergence. | Original post and links: https://nonzerosum.games/replicators.html

Welcome to the Other Side: An Introduction to Near Death Experiences

Welcome to Near Death Experiences with Eleanor Voss! In this inaugural episode, we explore the fascinating world of near death experiences (NDEs) - profound encounters reported by people who came close to death and returned to tell their stories. Host Eleanor Voss introduces the common elements of …

The Miracle Buried Under Nineveh And The Lie of Original Sin

Hey! We'd love to hear your thoughts, send us a voice note. Join us for a secular discussion of another fascinating academic paper published by the Marcionite Keleuthos Divinity School, titled: The Shasu Mutation: From Original Sin to Christian Identity Theft, Textual Inversion, and the Hijacking o…

ALISTER MCGRATH | Rethinking Christianity (Ep. 990)

In this episode, we welcome Alister McGrath to the show. He is a theologian, Christian apologist, scientist, author, and fellow of the Harris Manchester College at the University of Oxford. He is a vocal critic of “New Atheism” and has debated Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Christopher Hitchens, …