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

Physics and Chemistry have made enormous advances in our understanding of matter, during the last few century. Recently, great progress has been made in the study of experience, in a wide range of interdisciplinary areas, from Biology, Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology to Artificial Intelligence and in particular Machine Learning.

Are we now reaching a point that we can confidently talk about the nature of Reality, as something that we are beginning to unravel? Or is the question of the nature of reality ill posed, not something that has any clear answer? Or does it remain an intriguing question, perhaps the most intriguing question in science and philosophy, and if so how so?

Join Piet Hut, President of YHouse, and Professor of Astrophysics and Head of the Program in Interdisciplinary Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, for a lively discussion, following his short presentation.

Registration is required on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/consciousness-club-24-matter-experience-and-reality-tickets-37496268348.

WeWork Park South, New York, NY

Wednesday, September 13, 6 p.m.
Registration required