EASE Lab Monthly Meeting

October EASE Lab Meeting – Join us Wednesday, October 15th from 12:30-2 pm to hear research presentations by Dr. Nadav Amir and Dr. Andrew Jones. Pizza and refreshments will be provided. We welcome to all U of T Students, Faculty, and Staff!

Location: New College, Wilson Hall, Room 2002 (40 Wilcocks St)

Or online at https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/85115750403 (Meeting ID: 851 1575 0403 / Passcode: 775237)

Dr. Nadav Amir: “Buddhist models of agency in cognitive systems”

Nadav Amir is a visiting fellow at the Fields Institute for Research in the Mathematical Sciences. Previously, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute where he developed computational models of goal-directed state representations in cognitive agents. He is interested in engaging Buddhist and scientific perspective in dialogue surrounding topics of agency and experience in cognitive systems.

Dr. Andrew Jones: “Rebirth Behind Bars: Empathy, Human Potential, and Psychedelic Experimentation at a Canadian Maximum Security Psychiatric Hospital, 1965-1977”

Andrew recently completed his PhD at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto. His research explores the history of psychopharmacology, autism, and hallucinogenic drugs in North America. He is especially interested in using critical historical approaches to understand cases of experimental abuse in the history of LSD research.