Evidence That Your Mind is NOT Just In Your Brain - Rupert Sheldrake

In this episode Rupert Sheldrake, biologist and author, debunks the standard view that the mind is nothing but brain activity and argues that our mind is extended in every act of visual perception. Rupert has designed an app to enable you to test your sensitivity to being looked at from behind, and to find out if you can improve with practice. The test takes just a few minutes to complete. . If you find you or your partner can indeed improve with practice, scoring repeatedly and fairly reliably above 75%, please let us know by email at sheldrake@ For more information about Rupert Sheldrake’s research, visit This talk was part of the 2023 Holberg Debate at the University of Bergen with the neuroscientist Anil Seth and the anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann. The full debate can be seen here: Thank you!