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: Adele Goldberg (Princeton University)

Abstract: While being able to converse about a topic is viewed as quintessential evidence of our being conscious of that topic, a good part of our interpretation of language is opaque to our conscious mind. Two different types of examples will be offered: conventional metaphors (e.g., food for thought), and meaningful grammatical patterns, with evidence provided from fMRI data and from implicit priming.

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
  • Olaf Witkowski, Earth-Life Science Institute
  • Piet Hut, Institute for Advanced Study
  • Susan Schneider, The University of Connecticut
  • Tijmen Lansdaal, University of Amsterdam

Thursday, September 22, 12:30 p.m.
Institute for Advanced Study, 1 Einstein Drive, West Building Seminar Room, 2nd floor
Host by the Program in Interdisciplinary Studies