Susan Blackmore
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Susan Jane Blackmore (born 29 July 1951) is a British writer, lecturer, sceptic, broadcaster, and a visiting Professor at the University of Plymouth.
Memetics, parapsychology, and consciousness are among her research interests, and she is best known for her book The Meme Machine.
She has published or contributed to over 40 books and 60 scientific papers, as well as being a contributing writer to The Guardian newspaper.
Personal life
Blackmore, an atheist, a feminist, and a Zen devotee, but she describes herself as "not a Buddhist" because she is not ready to follow any dogma. Blackmore is a patron of Humanists in the United Kingdom. She is an honorary associate of the National Secular Society.
Blackmore, along with 54 other public figures, signed an open letter in The Guardian on September 15 announcing their opposition to Pope Benedict XVI's state visit to the United Kingdom.
She considers herself to be an illusionist in terms of a scientific interpretation of consciousness; she believes that phenomenal awareness is a "illusion" and a "grand delusion."
Adam Hart-Davis, a writer, is married to her partner. In 1995, Blackmore suffered from chronic exhaustion syndrome.
Career
Susan Blackmore graduated from St Hilda's College, Oxford, in 1973, with a degree in psychology and physiology. She earned an MSc in environmental psychology from the University of Surrey in 1974. She received a PhD in psychology from the same university in 1980; her doctoral thesis was titled "Extrasensory Perception as a Cognitive Process." Blackmore conducted psychokinesis experiments in the 1980s to see if her baby, Emily, could influence a random number generator. In the book that came with Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers, the experiments were described. Blackmore studied at the University of the West of England in Bristol from 2001 to 2001. After spending time on research into parapsychology and the paranormal, her attitude toward the field has shifted from belief to skepticism. Blackmore wrote an out-of-body experience shortly after she founded the Oxford University Society for Psychical Research in 1987 (OUSPR): a riot.
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She is a member of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (formerly CSICOP) and has received the CSICOP Distinguished Skeptic Award in 1991.
Blackmore carried out a substantial research between 1996 and 1999 of 'paranormal' experiences, the majority of which fell within the definition of sleep paralysis, according to Barbara Rowland in an article in The Observer on sleep paralysis.
Blackmore has done research into memes (which she wrote about in her book The Meme Machine) and evolutionary theory. Consciousness: An Introduction (2004), her book Consciousness: An Introduction (2004) is a textbook that broadly covers the field of consciousness research. She served on the editorial board of the Journal of Memetics (an electronic journal) from 1997 to 2001, and she has been a consulting editor for the Skeptical Inquirer since 1998.
She appeared on the British version of Big Brother as one of the contestants' psychologists, focusing on the contestants' psychological health. She is a Patron of Humanists in the United Kingdom.
In 2007, Blackmore debated Christian apologist Alister McGrath on the existence of God. Jordan Peterson debating whether God is required to make sense of life in 2018.
Blackmore appeared at the 17th European Skeptic Congress (ESC) in Old Town Wrocaw, Poland, in 2017. The Klub Sceptyków Polegów (Polish Skeptics Club) and Sisyfos (Czech Skeptic's Club) arranged this congress. Scott Lilienfeld, Zbyn's Vybrral, and Tomasz Witkowski were among the panel on skeptical psychology, which was chaired by Michael Heap.