New for 2016 Workshop

During the upcoming Science for Monks workshop in Bir, we will be doing a few new things.  For one, a neuroethicist from the University of Washington will join me at the workshop.  We hope to have a discussion with the monks about the benefits and problems associated with neurotechnologies.  We are also going to try the "rubber hand illusion." The rubber hand illusion is a demonstration of how body ownership can change.  For the demonstration, a person puts his hand in a place where his real hand cannot be seen and a rubber hand model is placed in a similar place where it can be seen.  If the person's hand and the rubber hand are touched at the same time in the same place for a minute or two, the person often comes to believe that the rubber hand is his own.  It doesn't work on everyone, but we will give it a try.