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

Speaker: Ed Turner, Princeton University

Abstract: An ambitious program to send tiny (gram scale) nanocraft to nearby stars at speeds of an appreciable fraction of the speed of light by combining rapidly advancing technologies in micro-electronics, nano-technology, and photonics (lasers) has received generous private funding and is now in progress. The basic technological scheme and plan will be sketched out and a speculation on the possible nature of the payloads that might first cross interstellar space will be presented.

Participants:

  • Ed Turner, Princeton University
  • Michael Solomon, Chair Robert Wood Johnson Barnabas University Hospital Bioethics Committee and Co-Chair Medical Society of New Jersey Bioethics Committee
  • Ayako Fukui, Araya BI
  • Divya Bhardwaj, New School
  • Linda Cooper, Institute for Advanced Study
  • Bob MacLennan
  • Johnny Bontemps, science writer
  • Olaf Witkowski, Earth-Life Science Institute
  • Piet Hut, Institute for Advanced Study

Thursday, September 15, 12:30 p.m.
Institute for Advanced Study, 1 Einstein Drive, West Building Seminar Room, 2nd floor
Host by the Program in Interdisciplinary Studies