The Benefits of Consciousness

The brain is constantly re-representing information that it has access to. This feeling level or this re-representation of something we're perceiving could be a level that also boosts cognitive processes, better decision making. We are very interested in how these four areas talk, not only talk to each other, but look at the fifth kind of region which integrates all of these. And so, what we have seen and other people have seen in an illusion called rubber-hand illusion is that when you see your hand experimentally at a different position where you feel it, that can be virtual reality. It's not dissimilar to the work on how virtual reality can help treat chronic pain that we