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Podcast: AI RADIO TV NEWS
Episode: 2023-06-26 - A Glitch In The Neuromatrix The Science Of Phantom Presence
Description: In 2006, a team of neurologists led by Shahar Arzy and Olaf Blanke reported on an unusual case of felt presence. A 22-year-old woman was having a pre-surgical evaluation for epilepsy treatment, and she had given consent to have her brain stimulated with electrical current. Among the sites stimulated was the left temporoparietal junction (TPJ), an area of the brain behind and above the ear where the back of the temporal lobe meets the lower side of the parietal lobe. When the experimenters probed this area, a striking thing happened: a strong feeling of a shadow presence befell the...