Editing Susan Blackmore (section)

==Personal life==
Blackmore is an advocate of [[secular spirituality]], an [[atheist]], a [[humanism|humanist]], and a practitioner of [[Zen]], although she identifies herself as "not a [[Buddhist]]" because she is not prepared to go along with any dogma.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Blackmore|first1=S.|last2=Jacobsen|first2=S.D.|title=Dr. Susan Blackmore, Visiting Professor, University of Plymouth|journal=In-Sight|date=22 April 2014|issue=4.A|pages=91–105|url=http://in-sightjournal.com/2014/04/22/dr-susan-blackmore-visiting-professor-university-of-plymouth/}}</ref><ref name="PRI Zen">{{cite episode |title= Susan Blackmore on Zen Consciousness |url= http://ttbook.org/book/susan-blackmore-zen-consciousness |series= [[To the Best of Our Knowledge]] |network= [[NPR]] |transcript= Transcript for Susan Blackmore uncut |transcript-url= http://ttbook.org/book/transcript/transcript-susan-blackmore-uncut |station= [[Wisconsin Public Radio]] |date= 31 October 2012 |last= Paulson |first= S. (interviewer) |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131128082838/http://ttbook.org/book/susan-blackmore-zen-consciousness |archive-date= 28 November 2013}}</ref> Blackmore is a patron of [[Humanists UK]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Dr. Susan Blackmore|url=https://humanism.org.uk/about/our-people/patrons/Dr-Susan-Blackmore/|website=Humanists UK|access-date=30 September 2017}}</ref> She is an honorary associate of the National Secular Society.<ref>{{cite web|title=National Secular Society Honorary Associates|url=https://secularism.org.uk/honorary-associates.html|website=National Secular Society|access-date=31 July 2019}}</ref>

On 15 September 2010, Blackmore, along with 54 other public figures, signed an open letter published in ''[[The Guardian]]'', stating their opposition to [[Pope Benedict XVI]]'s state visit to the UK.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/sep/15/harsh-judgments-on-pope-religion|title=Letters: Harsh judgments on the pope and religion|newspaper= [[The Guardian]] |access-date=20 July 2013 | location=London | date=15 September 2010}}</ref>

Regarding her personal view on a scientific understanding of [[consciousness]], she considers herself to be an [[eliminative_materialism#Illusionism|illusionist]]; she believes [[phenomenal consciousness]] is an "illusion" and "grand delusion".<ref name="Blackmore2017">{{cite book|author=Susan Blackmore|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kZ83DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA130|title=Consciousness: a Very Short Introduction|date=14 September 2017|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-879473-8|pages=130–|quote=My own view is this. Consciousness is an illusion: an enticing and compelling illusion [...] This, I suggest, is how the grand delusion of consciousness comes about.}}</ref><ref name="Blackmore2016">{{cite journal|last=Blackmore|first=Susan|year=2016|title=Delusions of consciousness|url=http://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/imp/jcs/2016/00000023/F0020011/art00004|journal=Journal of Consciousness Studies|volume=23|issue=11–12|pages=52–64|quote=Frankish's illusionism aims to replace the hard problem with the illusion problem; to explain why phenomenal consciousness seems to exist and why the illusion is so powerful. My aim, though broadly illusionist, is to explain why many other false assumptions, or delusions, are so powerful.}}</ref>

She is married to the writer [[Adam Hart-Davis]].<ref name= "IMDb"/> Blackmore endured a bout of [[chronic fatigue syndrome]] in 1995.<ref name="cfs book">{{cite book |last1 = Lisman |first1= S.R. |last2 = Dougherty |first2= K. |title= Chronic Fatigue Syndrome For Dummies |year= 2007 |publisher= [[John Wiley & Sons]] |isbn= 9780470117729 |page= [https://books.google.com/books?id=GRe5TQFr2k8C&pg=PA298 298]}}</ref>