Dr. Christof (Christoph) Koch

In the far future, it may be able to directly access your brain, but that's not going to happen in the next 30 years, right, given the slow progression of brain technology.

So you have to talk to it.

So that limits it.

But then in principle, it could, if it knew enough, say, wait a minute, do you realize, Anu, that you're getting in this state of anger gain or whatever the case may be?

We do know...

I mean, what we do know, there's this crisis here at the Tiny Blue Dot Foundation here in Santa Monica.

We have this workshop coming up in two weeks with a whole bunch of experts on mental health in adolescents.

You probably also know mental health, particularly in young ones, has gotten progressively worse over 70 years.

I mean, this predates social media, gets accelerated by social media, gets accelerated by the pandemic, but it's really bad right now.

And part of the problem is they are very uncomfortable in their own body.

They don't have this proper interoception.

So just doing some of these meditation exercises that you, in fact, there are various therapies based on that where people, anorexia nervosa is the worst, is for some of the more extreme case, which is one of the most deadliest psychotic diseases, right?

Where a significant number of patients kill themselves because they...

believe erroneously that their body is way too fat.

In fact, they look to us like victims of starvation because they don't have a proper, they don't live inside their skin in any real way.

They haven't learned to pay attention to the interoceptive signal.

So I think just doing a

a therapy based on being more body aware and realizing what states come up and understanding yeah these are connected with certain emotion would really and people are trying to do that of course there are all sorts of therapies with young kids in school or out of school where they're trying to do exactly this

I mean, there are many causes.

And of course, people fight like academics always do.