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The Helix Center
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The Helix Center episodes
- Understanding GeniusThis roundtable will examine competing philosophical and historical conceptions of genius, including the relationship between talent and originality, and whether originality is the defining feature of genius.2 hr 20 min
- Epigenetics at WorkThis roundtable will explore how advances in epigenetics and transgenerational inheritance challenge traditional “nature versus nurture” frameworks by reframing traits, behaviors, and diseases as the products of multifactorial genetic and environmental interactions.1 hr 32 min
- Human and Nonhuman Minds: Continuities and DiscontinuitiesThis roundtable will examine how advances in the study of animal cognition and behavior have expanded our understanding from whether animals think to how and to what extent they think, and what their cognitive worlds may consist of.1 hr 52 min
- Trauma and its Aftereffects, Part I: War and GenocideThis roundtable will consider how experiences of war and genocide shape survivors, perpetrators, and descendants, and how violence sanctioned by states or cultures informs individual and collective conscience.1 hr 40 min
- The Changing Nature of Free WillThis roundtable will examine how advances in genetics and neuroscience, along with ideas from quantum mechanics, are reshaping conceptions of free will, individual choice, and their implications for law.2 hr 8 min
- The Mind of a ChildThis roundtable will examine how young children understand and experience the world across developmental stages, and what these differences reveal about cognition, memory, and emotion, with implications for supporting both typical development and developmental disorders.2 hr 10 min
- CuriosityThis roundtable will explore curiosity as both a driving force of knowledge and a source of existential and ethical inquiry, examining how lives shaped by curiosity give meaning across disciplines and perspectives.2 hr 11 min
- Apprehending ConsciousnessThis roundtable will examine how science approaches the problem of consciousness, and the roles of physics, psychology, psychoanalysis, neuroscience, philosophy, and religion in understanding sentience and self-awareness.2 hr 9 min
- Particle Fever / The QuestThis roundtable will consider the mental and personal qualities that drive scientific and intellectual quests for discovery, beyond curiosity and courage, in the face of the known and the unknown.1 hr 44 min
- Particle Fever / The Quest: Part 2 Q&APart 2: Particle Fever Q&A with Mark Levinson Particle Fever, Mark Levinson’s award-winning 2013 documentary (for which Helix Center Executive Committee member Carla Solomon was a producer), tells the remarkable story of the monumental search for the Higgs boson, the elementary force particle predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics. Following a morning presentation of... read more! »55 min
About The Helix Center
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The primary objective of The Helix Center for Interdisciplinary Investigation is not to obtain knowledge, per se, but to aspire to an unhurried search for wisdom, emphasizing the centrality of a sense of wonder in this endeavor.
Philosophically, we stand against the trivialization of thought and the balkanization within and between the sciences and the arts. Fundamental to our promotion of these views is our roundtable format of open, spontaneous discourse, one facilitating novel encounters of questioning and understanding among participants. Each program endeavors to expand the boundaries of inquiry by facilitating a creative encounter with uncertainty in the face of scientific and artistic advances. To further nurture opportunities for creative social and intellectual exchange, we also sponsor musical performances, poetry readings, film screenings, and other opportunities for imaginative experience.
Visit https://www.helixcenter.org for more!
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