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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... more
FAQs about The Helix Center:How many episodes does The Helix Center have?The podcast currently has 136 episodes available.
November 15, 2014Complexity and EmergenceThis roundtable will examine emergence and complexity in brain, biological, and social systems, and the implications for understanding mind, prediction, and human behavior....more2h 20minPlay
October 25, 2014The Span of InfinityThis roundtable will examine the concept of the infinite across cosmological, mathematical, philosophical, psychological, and theological perspectives, and its implications for understanding existence and human knowledge....more2h 5minPlay
October 11, 2014Cancer: Body & MindThis roundtable will examine current advances in the biology of cancer and consider how emerging research informs, and complicates, our understanding of any relationship between mind, immunity, and disease progression....more1h 29minPlay
September 20, 2014Knowledge and LimitationsThis roundtable will examine the scope and limits of human knowledge about the universe, and whether metaphysical inquiry can be integrated with empirical approaches to understanding nature....more1h 58minPlay
June 14, 2014Responses: Poetry with Patrick Rosal and Jean ValentineThis event will feature poets Patrick Rosal and Jean Valentine reading and responding to each other’s work, as part of a dialogue-centered poetry series....more1h 31minPlay
May 17, 2014Women and the Work WorldThis roundtable will examine the causes and consequences of persistent obstacles to women’s employment and advancement, despite increased parity, considering cultural, psychological, and biological factors....more1h 34minPlay
April 26, 2014Women and ScienceThis roundtable will examine the gender gap in STEM, the challenges women face in advancing in scientific fields, and the cultural, psychological, and structural factors that shape equal opportunity in science....more1h 46minPlay
April 12, 2014Synchronicity: On the Spectrum of Mind and MatterThis roundtable will examine Jung and Pauli’s concept of synchronicity as meaningful, acausal coincidence, and consider how such phenomena are approached at the intersection of physics and psychology....more2h 9minPlay
March 01, 2014Identity and FanaticismThis roundtable will examine the biological, developmental, and social processes that shape group identity, and how affiliation can evolve into fanaticism in ethnic, religious, or national contexts....more1h 49minPlay
February 22, 2014Biology of MindThis roundtable will examine the nature of mind as it relates to biological systems, the evolutionary origins of cognition and consciousness, and the possibility of engineering artificial minds....more2h 8minPlay
FAQs about The Helix Center:How many episodes does The Helix Center have?The podcast currently has 136 episodes available.