#119 Meet The Inner Speech Expert Proving We Can Conjure Other Conscious Entities
From The Giants Shoulder by Evan McGloughlin
May 11, 2026 · 1h 4m · Season 2 · Episode 118
About this episode
The episode features Ben Alderson-Day discussing inner speech and its relation to hallucinations and consciousness.
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…
People in this episode
Host: Evan McGloughlin
Guest: Ben Alderson-Day
Topics covered
- inner speech
- hallucination research
- psychology
- consciousness
- tulpamancy
- voice in head
Keywords
- inner speech
- hallucinations
- psychology
- tulpamancy
- consciousness
- Evan's LSD experience
- voice in head
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Durham
Books & works: Presence
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