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: Yuko Ishihara (Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen)

Moderated by: Christopher Stawski (University of Pennsylvania)

In the mesmerizing experience of the moon, glimmering so impressively in the dark sky, is there a self? Am *I* there in such experience prior to reflection and thoughts about the moon? Most of the Western philosophical tradition has contended that I *am* there however implicit it may be. Nishida Kitaro, the most influential Japanese philosopher of the last century, has argued otherwise. In the moment of that experience, there is not yet subject or object, I or moon. There is absolutely no-thing but the beauty of the “moon” actualizing itself through “me.” Join philosopher Yuko Ishihara (Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen) as she elaborates on how Nishida points to the very ground of our experience whereby we awaken to the most direct encounter with reality.

Friday, December 2, 5 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Art Lounge of the Rubin Museum of Art 

Photo credit: Luis Tsukayama Cisneros