Public Dialogues

YHouse continues its program of lectures, events, and conversations on exciting and provocative topics at a number of venues around New York City.

Consciousness Club NYC

YHouse invites you to the Consciousness Club, a study group to promote broadly transdisciplinary discussions on the neural and computational bases of consciousness, and how these concepts can be applied to other fields of interest. Our weekly meetings are for you if you are into awareness, science, technology, philosophy, art, and design.

For more information and meeting schedule, check out our Facebook page, or tune in to our Twitter updates.

Although the meetings are open to all, we encourage technical and scientific discussions for this series of meetings.

Cognition Lunch Salon

YHouse continues to organize informal Lunch Salon events hosted by the Program in Interdisciplinary Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, 1 Einstein Drive, Princeton, N.J., West Building Seminar Room, 2nd floor. The format is an informal chat, followed by longer open-ended discussions among the participants, on the topic of consciousness and cognition. This event is by invitation only. To request an invitation, please email us at info@yhousenyc.org

Part of the series “Chasing Consciousness: From Cells to Societies, Neuroscience to Machine Awareness”

Speakers: Ryota Kanai (Araya Brain Imaging), Caleb Scharf (Columbia University), and Erik Hoel (Columbia University)
Moderated by: George Musser (Scientific American)

Three leading scientists—Ryota Kanai (neuroscientist and CEO of Araya Brain Imaging), Erik Hoel (complex systems and consciousness researcher at Columbia University), and Caleb Scharf (origins of life and astrobiology researcher at Columbia University)—will discuss an area that current neuroscientific research tends to ignore: awareness. How do we become cognizant of our surroundings and our selves? How do our brains juggle the myriad inputs and decide what to focus on? How could a machine achieve the same functions? Ryota Kanai, Erik Hoel, and Caleb Scharf are founding members of YHouse, a new New York-based brain research institute. Moderated by the award-winning journalist George Musser, author of Spooky Action at a Distance and The Complete Idiot’s Guide to String Theory.

Friday, September 16, 5 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Art Lounge of the Rubin Museum of Art