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Otherness 1:47:23

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The notion of Otherness—for all its familiarity and slipperiness—has become so relevant in our era of rapid political polarization that a fresh and interdisciplinary examination of its roots seems in order. This roundtable will bring together philosophers, psychoanalysts, social theorists and historians to trace its origins and significance at mult…

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The Poetry of Aging 1:27:03

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“So here it is at last, the distinguished thing” So Henry James described his intimation of death. His brother, William, was grittier, but no less poetic in calling it the “worm at the core” that frightens and fascinates us. Thoughts of aging and death have inspired some of our most beautiful poetry: “Upon those boughs which shake against the cold/…

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Come Out Wherever You Are: In Search of Consciousness 1:42:47

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Panpsychism is the lightly subscribed philosophical position that consciousness is a property of all matter, large and small, simple and complex, alive and inert. According to panpsychism mind is everywhere. Eliminativism is the view that consciousness, at least what most of us consider our mind’s eye access to reality (phenomenal consciousness), e…

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Striking a Chord: Hearing and Space 1:55:19

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Vibration sense is one component of touch. Refinements of this sense, and in some animals the emission of vibration – typically from the vocal cords – has evolved to echolocation, to clicks, grunts, roars and to speech. The vibration of one special membrane, the ear drum, creates that wonderful interface that enables us to appreciate and locate sou…

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A ≠ B → Taste & Discernment 1:35:16

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Where life begins to distinguish the edible, the nutritious, the appealing, from the insipid, the poisonous, and the disgusting; this is where taste and discernment come into being. From a bag of Cheetos to Michelin 3-star fare we cover a lot of ground, yet financial means alone fails to account fully for the popularity of both ends of this culinar…

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Touch as the Ur-Sense: From Presence to Poesy 1:28:52

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“Now the touch only is common to all animals.” Agrippa The very notion of sentience, with its root in feeling, cannot be understood without some reference to sensation. And sensation itself has at its bare core a “something” we feel. The response to that feeling is the mark of life: “quickening” upon touch is how we distinguish the animate from the…

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Discovering the What and the Wherefore: Scents and Sensibility 1:48:23

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As the first sense to engage the world “remotely”, beyond the boundary of an organism’s body, olfaction delivers news from “over there”. But whereas it adumbrates a space beyond, what kind of space, what sort of world does it proffer? Smell engages the world as a series of pathways laid out on gradients.… read more »…

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Synthetic Consciousness: Seeing and Believing 1:37:38

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“The Aleph was probably two to three centimeters in diameter, but universal space was contained inside it . . .” – JL Borges Our eyes move. They rove and they direct attention. Indeed, vision and our ability to focus attention more generally are intimately intertwined.… read more »Di The Helix Center

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The Effects of Media 1:57:39

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What are the effects of media today? What exactly is “social” about social media? How do media shape reality? Are developments in AI changing media as we understand communications technologies? Sixty years ago, the Canadian Professor of English and Media, Marshall McLuhan published the unexpectedly popular volume Understanding Media (1964), which w…

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Covid and Literature 2:01:36

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Fractured: Covid 19 – Memento Mori vs. Memento Vivere; “COVID-19 Betrays America’s Cult of Curdled Optimism”; This Exquisite Loneliness; The Lonely Stories; 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed; The Quarantine Tapes; these titles were all attempts by our panelists to endure and make sense of the Pandemic. … read more »…

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Permanence and Impermanence of Mathematical Concepts 1:49:52

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What do you think of when you think of the number five? Do you think of symbol like 5, a pattern like ⁙, or the fifth item on a list? Today, the concept of number is fixed and eternal, unlinked to anything in the universe. … read more »Di The Helix Center

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Emotion 1:55:09

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What is human life without emotion? Could the “dawn of humankind” even be imagined without emotion exerting its effects right there from the start? And across the millennia emotion has forever been at the heart of most matters. Human history has been shaped by emotion and reshaped by attitudes toward emotion; a powerful human force philosophers and…

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Shakespeare Forever 1:42:29

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The date of this Round Table is not a coincidence: William Shakespeare was born on or about April 23, 1564, and he died on April 23, 1616. This is a particularly auspicious year for celebrating Shakespeare: 2023 is the 400th anniversary of the publication of the First Folio, the first collected printing of Shakespeare’s plays and one of the most im…

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Life Beyond Earth: When and How Will it be Found? 1:42:45

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Astrobiology is the study of life on the universe. It uses an understanding of the nature and history of life on this planet to frame expectations for biology beyond Earth. Starting in 1995, astronomers have discovered exoplanets: planets orbiting other stars. Over 5300 have been confirmed, and it’s likely there are more planets than stars in the u…

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The Technē of Memory 1:26:46

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What is memory? How does it determine our experience and identity? To what extent does memory influence our understanding of the future? Or of time itself? How do individual memories differ from collective ones? What happens to our sense of belonging and selfhood when our memories are externalized in digital devices?… read more »…

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The Body and Psychosis 1:41:42

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A new movement within Cognitive Psychology, known as 4E Cognition, views thought and behavior as embodied, embedded, enactive & extended. Each of these four strands has a rich (and ongoing) philosophical history. Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, Bahktin, Vygotsky and others have drawn attention to the role of action and interaction in (in)forming our expe…

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Living in Difficult Times 1:29:00

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Daily headlines have been startling and scary: “U.S. Life Expectancy Plunged in 2020, Especially for Black and Hispanic Americans,” reported The New York Times. “The Pandemic has Made Homelessness More Visible in Many American Cities,” noted The Economist, while The Guardian announced “The Latest UN Report is Clear: Climate Change is Here, It’s a C…

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Coding and the new Human Phenotype: Are Natural Language Generators for Real? 1:38:17

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The program GPT-3 can create language that gives the impression that it is thinking. What will our interaction with robots of greater and greater verbal agility mean in the near future? What sort of Other will these robots become, evolve to?… read more »Di The Helix Center

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Coding and the New Human Phenotype: Is the Universe a Metaverse? 1:32:36

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Our panel will discuss the suggestion that we have been living in a sort of metaverse all along. This claim starts with the notion that the Universe evolves as one giant algorithmic computation, and that information is the basic substance. A variation on this line of thought asks the question: could we be living in a simulation à la the Matrix.… re…

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Coding and the Human Phenotype: Manipulated Perception?: Fakery, Authenticity, and the Birth of NFTs 1:34:43

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What counts as true and how we might know the truth in the age of coding. A discussion about misinformation, the decentralization of knowledge, and the struggle to establish what is real. Encoded algorithms help to provide security but also risk an encroachment on privacy.… read more »Di The Helix Center

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Coding and the New Phenotype: In Search for Lost Time 1:49:07

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How we discover codes, bearers of meaning, and how we reconstruct that meaning in archeology & paleoanthropology, in psychoanalysis, and in neuroscience research on memory.… read more »Di The Helix Center

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Coding and the New Human Phenotype: Coding, Fiction, Metafiction – the Parcellation of What Isn’t There 1:41:46

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The humanities deal with the manipulation of ideas. Ideas can be encoded, metabolized, and contribute to cultural evolution. What roles do cultural memes – be they fact, factoid, or fiction – play in what goes on. Does fiction provide any insight into this complex dynamic?… read more »Di The Helix Center

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Metaphysics 1:56:56

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Physics being the study of the fundamental properties of Nature, as the name implies, metaphysics investigates the nature of Nature, the what-must-therefore-be-the-case of those discoverable physical properties. For centuries, either explicitly or implicitly, metaphysics created the background and organizing principles for scientific research.… rea…

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Psychedelics 2:00:08

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Neuroplasticity: it’s what our brains do. We alter our minds when we engage with the world and with the people in it. But, of course, when we think of “mind altering drugs” we refer to something else. That there might be a shortcut, a wormhole, a portal to some new and improved state of mind has long held our fascination.… read more »…

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People & Things in Motion: Economics and the Future

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The Dismal Science seems to analyze and involve most aspects of our lives. While traditional macroeconomics continues to concern itself with natural rates of inflation and unemployment, with tariffs and taxes, with supply and demand, at both the meso- and micro-levels, economics has productively linked with sociology, social history, anthropology, …

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Otherness 1:47:23

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The Poetry of Aging 1:27:03

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Come Out Wherever You Are: In Search of Consciousness 1:42:47

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Striking a Chord: Hearing and Space 1:55:19

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A ≠ B → Taste & Discernment 1:35:16

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Touch as the Ur-Sense: From Presence to Poesy 1:28:52

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Discovering the What and the Wherefore: Scents and Sensibility 1:48:23

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Synthetic Consciousness: Seeing and Believing 1:37:38

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The Effects of Media 1:57:39

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Covid and Literature 2:01:36

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Permanence and Impermanence of Mathematical Concepts 1:49:52

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Emotion 1:55:09

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Shakespeare Forever 1:42:29

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Life Beyond Earth: When and How Will it be Found? 1:42:45

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The Technē of Memory 1:26:46

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The Body and Psychosis 1:41:42

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Living in Difficult Times 1:29:00

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Coding and the new Human Phenotype: Are Natural Language Generators for Real? 1:38:17

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Coding and the New Human Phenotype: Is the Universe a Metaverse? 1:32:36

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Coding and the Human Phenotype: Manipulated Perception?: Fakery, Authenticity, and the Birth of NFTs 1:34:43

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Coding and the New Phenotype: In Search for Lost Time 1:49:07

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Coding and the New Human Phenotype: Coding, Fiction, Metafiction – the Parcellation of What Isn’t There 1:41:46

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Metaphysics 1:56:56

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Psychedelics 2:00:08

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People & Things in Motion: Economics and the Future

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