By what empirical means can a person determine whether he or she is presently awake or dreaming? Any conceivable test addressing this question, which is a special case of the classical metaphysical doubting of reality, must be statistical (for the same reason that empirical science is, as noted by Hume). Subjecting the experienced reality to any kind of statistical test (for instance, a test fo...

Schizophrenia is a chronic brain disorder that affects about 1.1% of the adult US population annually. Hallucinations, delusions, and impaired reality testing are prominent symptoms of the disorder. Modeling these symptoms is difficult because it is unclear how to assess impaired reality testing in animals. Animals cannot discuss their beliefs; however, a century of learning experiments has sho...

Augmented Reality is a technology that allows the superimposition of virtual objects onto the real world environment. Various fields, such as education, medicine, and architecture, started adapting Augmented Reality technology in their systems. However, developing Augmented Reality applications, along with their contents, requires a specific skillset, which limits the amount of Augmented Realit...