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”

Speaker: Hedda Hassel Morch (The Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness, NYU)
Moderated by: Erik P Hoel (Columbia University)

Join philosopher of mind Hedda Hassel Morch (NYU) as she discusses the latest in philosophical thinking about the nature of consciousness. Her thesis: in order to solve the problem of consciousness some deep change in our understanding of matter is required. As Stephen Hawking said, there must be something that “breathes fire into the equations” of physics. What is this thing that realizes the structure of physics? Consciousness seems like a possible answer. Hedda Hassel Morch will discuss these issues with a founding member of YHouse, Erik P Hoel, a scientist who is a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University.

Friday, September 23, 5 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Art Lounge of the Rubin Museum of Art