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born 1951 England

Susan Jane Blackmore, PhD, MSc, BA (born 29 July 1951, in London) is a British psychologist, researcher, freelance writer, lecturer and broadcaster, perhaps best known for her book The Meme Machine. She is well known for her studies and books on memetics, consciousness and parapsychology.

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Parapsychology seems to be growing further away from the progress and excitement of the rest of consciousness studies.

If everyone understood evolution, then the tyranny of religious memes would be weakened, and we little humans might find a better way to live in this pointless universe.

Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes.

The other key to my failures seemed to be belief. I was told that I didn’t get results because I didn’t believe strongly enough in psi, because I didn’t have an open mind!

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Susan Blackmore (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.