Hacking enlightenment: can ultrasound help you transcend reality?
Presenter:
Dr. Jay Sanguinetti
Time:
9:06
Summary
Can technology improve the way we meditate? At the University of Arizona, Dr Jay Sanguinetti and master meditator Shinzen Young are using ultrasound to improve our ability to achieve mindfulness – as well as enhance our cognition and wellbeing. They believe it could revolutionise the way we treat those with depression and trauma. But as investors from Silicon Valley become interested in the technology, the pair are fighting to make sure the device is used in the right way and for the right reasons.
Transcript
When I was at the Society for Neuroscience meeting, I heard the Dalai Lama say that if neuroscientists could create an intervention to give him the effects of meditation without meditating, he would be the first one to sign up.
Ultrasound might be it, if you pardon my French, we are scared shitless of this technology. We're just at the very beginning of unlocking this immense technological and scientific power. As I create technology that helps you become happier. Does that reduce your ability to make good decisions? How do we define good decisions? I have a little delay. It's all good, though, and I'll just be there around English.