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.

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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: Mark Johnston (Princeton University)

Abstract: The real push toward dualism that arises from the examination of visual consciousness does not arise from the existence of visual qualia. For there is no good sense in which such qualia are mental; talk of mental qualia is a kind of category mistake, albeit widespread in discussions of consciousness. The real push towards dualism has to do with the relation we bear to such qualia; specifically that visual awareness of them can provide us with novel depictive knowledge, i.e., a kind of know how which seems grounded in some degree of experiential revelation of the nature of these qualities. It is the relation of revelation which is not reducible to basic physical relations by way of physicalistically acceptable modes of combination.

Thursday, October 6, 12:30 p.m.
Institute for Advanced Study, 1 Einstein Drive, West Building Seminar Room, 2nd floor
Host by the Program in Interdisciplinary Studies