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Sounds to me like the bullcrap part of the Neuroscape that lights up when a person is engaging in believing bullcrap has been discovered.

But to respond to your question, in Tee’s post it says that a study showed differences amongst believers’ and practitioners’ experiences vs. those of skeptics and atheists.  Also differences of experiences among persons according to the amount of engaging in some practices.  So that suggests to me that if this sense of “a presence of whatever” is hardwired, that it is at least malleable to learning, iow, a person’s sense of it would be dependent in part on his life experiences.