This is the video of Piet Hut’s presentation, as part of the Chasing Consciousness Public events at the Rubin Museum of Art.
YHouse Blog: Awareness Research, the Nature of Cognition and the Future of Intelligence
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Lucid Living: Theory and Experiment in Science and Philosophy
By Piet Hut
Please join us for drinks and an exciting discussion on “Determination of Death by Cessation of Whole Brain Function” with Dr. Michael Solomon (RWJ Barnabas University Hospital & Medical Society of New Jersey Bioethics Committee) this Wednesday evening.
Join Susan Schneider, an associate professor of philosophy and cognitive science at the University of Connecticut and a member of the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics at Yale University, as she discusses her proposal for a test for determining whether AI can be conscious.
Please join us for drinks and a discussion that riffs on evolutionary theory and speculates on the properties of thought. Dr. William Chang (Albert Einstein College of Medicine) will lead a discussion on how biological entities from enzymes to brains achieve both coherence and diversity of behavior.
Photo credit: Luis Tsukayama Cisneros
Topic: “Awakened Realism: Insights from Japanese Philosophy”
Speaker: Yuko Ishihara (Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen)
This first event will feature two artists and a scientist, with a panel discussion moderated by Nadja Oertelt. How does awareness arise?
If you missed it last Friday at the Rubin Museum, here is a link where you can watch a video recording of the full talk by mind scientist Liza Solomonova and Dr. Niko Schiff.
Chasing Consciousness Series #8 at Rubin Museum of Art: “Waking Up to Dreaming: What Sleep Can Teach Us about Consciousness” Hosted by mind scientist Liza Solomonova (Dream and Nightmare Laboratory, University of Montreal)and moderated by Dr. Niko Schiff (Brain Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell).
Please join us for our FREE public dialogue this Friday, November 18th, 5PM at at the Rubin Museum of Art!
Please join us for drinks and a casual discussion on “Awareness and the Biosphere” with Dr. Donato Giovanelli (ELSI/Rutgers) thisWednesday, November 16th, 6PM at Bernheim & Schwartz! (1911 Broadway, New York City, NY).
Photo credit: Luis Tsukayama Cisneros
Please join us this Friday, November 11th, 5PM-6PM for our FREE public dialogue: “From Knowing What You Have to Waking Up to What You Are”
Speaker: Piet Hut (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton).
Date: Wednesday, November 9th
Time: 6PM-8PM
Place: VBar St. Marks (132 1st Ave)
Join us for drinks and this exciting discussion topic led by Dr. Seth D. Baum (Global Catastrophic Risk Institute and Center for Research on Environmental Decisions, Columbia University).
On: Wednesday, November 2nd, 6PM At: City Crab Shack (10 E 16th st, in Manhattan)
Join us in a discussion with Dr. Eran Agmon (Columbia) who will describe a computational method for studying protocells, and the consequences of these results on the foundation of cognitive science.
On: Wednesday, October 26, 6PM At: Le Midi (11 East 13th Street)
“How can conceptual understanding help both procedural mastery and creative programming?”
Please join us in a discussion with Lothar Troeller, an unconventional math coach and middle/high school/special education teacher
When: This Friday, October 21, 5PM-6PM Where: Rubin Museum of Art, Art Lounge (150 West 17th Street)
Please join us in a discussion with Hod Lipson, Director of Columbia University’s Creative Machine Labs and a world-renowned expert on robotics, computer learning, self-driving cars, and 3D-printing, who will talk about where artificial intelligence is leading us, and itself, faster and faster.
Wednesday, October 19, 2016. 6:00pm (time change starting from this week!).
At: Cloud Social (Rooftop of Nyma Hotel 6 West 32nd Street, 17th Floor).
The topic of discussion is “Who Needs Grounding? Frameworks and Worldviews”
Photo credit: Luis Tsukayama Cisneros
Friday, October 14, 5-6PM. At: Rubin Museum of Art (150 West 17th St. New York, NY), Art Lounge
Speakers: Ed Turner (Princeton University) and Caleb Scharf (Columbia University)