Haunted Data Explores The Concepts That Are At Work In Our Complex Relationships With Data. Our Engagement With Data Big Or Small Is Never As Simplistic Or Straightforward As Might First Appear. Indeed, Blackman Argues That Our Relationship With Data Is Haunted With Errors, Dead Ends, Ghostly Figures, And Misunderstandings That Challenge Core Assumptions About The Nature Of Thought, Consciousness, Mind, Cognition, Affect, Communication, Control And Rationality, Both Human And Non-human.using Contemporary Controversies From Weird Science Including The Field Of Priming And Its Uncanny Relations To Animal Telepathy, As Well As Artificial Intelligences And Their Curious Relation To Psychic Research (clairvoyant Computers), Blackman Shows How Some Of The Current Crises In Science In These Areas Reveal More Than Scientists Are Willing Or Even Able To Acknowledge.