The Relationship Between Circumcision and Autism

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There's a woman named Dar Sheinarvai, Narvai who is a professor of moral psychology at the University of Notre Dame. She wrote an article about how we need to treat like the psychological damage caused by circumcision. But what I learned from this is that you can actually, there's a procedure, not a non-surgical procedure whereby you can stretch the skin of your penis so that a foreskin grows back.

David and Tamler break down a recent classic in the philosophy of mind: "The Extended Mind" by Andy Clark and David Chalmers. What is boundary of your mind? Is it contained with your body, or does it extend to the external environment--to your laptop, notebook, smartphone and more? Is this a purely terminological question, or one with practical and moral significance? And what is the role of intuition in providing an answer? Plus, Dave shares an email alerting him to the psychological trauma of male circumcision along with an exciting all-natural method for restoring the foreskin (that was stolen from us as infants).

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