Communing with the Dead Online: Chatbots, Grief, and Continuing Bonds

Krueger, Joel; Osler, Lucy

doi:10.53765/20512201.29.9.222

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“…FPs in bereaved wane over time but may still persist in a significant subgroup at least twelve months after loss of spouse, with positive FP experiences at 12 months associated with more intense grief responses soon after death [46]. More recently, FP has been reported upon interacting with "chatbots" or accessing archival memories of the dead stored in social media accounts; these experiences bring comfort as "continuing bonds" [47].…”

Section: Philosophy and Phenomenology Of Fpmentioning

confidence: 99%

The felt-presence experience: from cognition to the clinic

Barnby

Park

Baxter

et al. 2023

The Lancet Psychiatry

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Section: Philosophy and Phenomenology Of Fpmentioning

confidence: 99%

The felt-presence experience: from cognition to the clinic

Barnby

Park

Baxter

et al. 2023

The Lancet Psychiatry

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“…FPs in the bereaved wane over time, although have been captured in a large minority at least twelve months after loss of spouse, with positive experiences at 12 months associated with more intense grief responses soon after death [46]. More recently, FP has been experienced in interacting with "chatbots" or online archival memory hives of the dead that are stored on Facebook, Instagram, etc and bring comfort as "continuing bonds" [47]. [31] "Often there are changes in room temperature.…”

Section: Phenomenology and Philosophy Of Fpmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Felt Presence experience: From cognition to the clinic

Barnby¹,

Park²,

Baxter³

et al. 2022

Preprint

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The Felt Presence (FP) experience is the basic feeling that someone else is present in the immediate environment, without any other clear sensory evidence. Ranging from benevolent to distressing, personified to ambiguous, FP has been observed in neuropsychological case studies, within psychosis and paranoia, associated with sleep paralysis, anxiety, and recorded within endurance sports and spiritualist communities. In this review we summarise the philosophical and phenomenological, clinical and non-clinical correlates of FP, as well current measurement using psychometric, cognitive, and neurophysiological methods. We present current mechanistic explanations for FP, suggest a unifying cognitive framework for the phenomenon, and discuss outstanding questions for the field. FP offers a sublime window of opportunity to understand the cognitive neuroscience of own-body awareness and social agency detection; an intuitive, but poorly understood experience in health and disorder.

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“…Accounts of perception in typical music cognition have embraced embodied and enactive frameworks describing engagement with music from a sensorimotor perspective i.e., as an “act of doing”. Such views highlight the importance of kinesthetic experience and bodily based engagement with a material context for music cognition (Krueger, 2009 , 2011 , 2014 ; Loaiza, 2016 ; Maes et al, 2014 ; Reybrouck, 2014 , 2017 ; Schiavio et al, 2017 , 2019 ; van der Schyff et al, 2022 ). Scholars working from an embodied perspective argue that mental life is not well captured by analyses of mental states (i.e., their functional laws or computational underpinnings), nor by singular study of the brain’s structural and functional properties.…”

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confidence: 99%

Action, emotion, and music-colour synaesthesia: an examination of sensorimotor and emotional responses in synaesthetes and non-synaesthetes

Curwen

Timmers

Schiavio

2023

Psychological Research

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Synaesthesia has been conceptualised as a joining of sensory experiences. Taking a holistic, embodied perspective, we investigate in this paper the role of action and emotion, testing hypotheses related to (1) changes to action-related qualities of a musical stimulus affect the resulting synaesthetic experience; (2) a comparable relationship exists between music, sensorimotor and emotional responses in synaesthetes and the general population; and (3) sensorimotor responses are more strongly associated with synaesthesia than emotion. 29 synaesthetes and 33 non-synaesthetes listened to 12 musical excerpts performed on a musical instrument they had first-hand experience playing, an instrument never played before, and a deadpan performance generated by notation software, i.e., a performance without expression. They evaluated the intensity of their experience of the music using a list of dimensions that relate to sensorimotor, emotional or synaesthetic sensations. Results demonstrated that the intensity of listeners’ responses was most strongly influenced by whether or not music is performed by a human, more so than familiarity with a particular instrument. Furthermore, our findings reveal a shared relationship between emotional and sensorimotor responses among both synaesthetes and non-synaesthetes. Yet it was sensorimotor intensity that was shown to be fundamentally associated with the intensity of the synaesthetic response. Overall, the research argues for, and gives first evidence of a key role of action in shaping the experiences of music-colour synaesthesia.

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Communing with the Dead Online: Chatbots, Grief, and Continuing Bonds

Cited by 26 publications

References 32 publications

The felt-presence experience: from cognition to the clinic

The felt-presence experience: from cognition to the clinic

The Felt Presence experience: From cognition to the clinic

Action, emotion, and music-colour synaesthesia: an examination of sensorimotor and emotional responses in synaesthetes and non-synaesthetes

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