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

With Dr. Liza Solomonova (Dream and Nightmare Laboratory, University of Montreal)

Sleep paralysis is a unique phenomenon for the study of awareness, since it effectively combines dreaming and waking mind in a bizarre and often unsettling way. It is a temporary period of immobility between sleeping and waking that can be accompanied by vivid sensory experiences in any modality: visual, auditory, tactile, and a feeling of presence of someone or something sentient in the vicinity of the dreamer. While most episodes are characterized by intense fear and experience of mortal danger, some, including out of body experiences, can be positive and allow for lucidity and insight into how the mind works. In this talk Dr. Liza Solomonova will outline the phenomenology of sleep paralysis and discuss the role of awareness and culture in its interpretation and experience.

Wednesday, March 22, 6 p.m. 

WeWork Park South 10th Floor Lounge (entrance at 110 E. 28th Street)
Registration required