Benedikt Ehinger, junior professor at the Institute for Visualization und Interactive Systems (VIS) and holder of the SimTech-Tenure-Track-Professorship for Computational Cognitive Science, was recently featured on German national television. In the January 16 broadcast of the tagesthemen, reporter Paul Jens investigated ways to reduce one's brain activity and posed the question whether it is possible to ever truly think of nothing. In the short clip from the Computational Cognitive Science lab at the University of Stuttgart, Benedikt Ehinger points out how brain activity can often even be higher than normal during meditation: