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The Helix Center
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The Helix Center episodes
- The Sublime ExperienceThis roundtable will examine the sublime across visual arts, music, religious experience, and nature, considering how philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience illuminate the experience and its relation to pleasure and awe.1 hr 58 min
- Music to Whose Ears II: Embodied CognitionThis roundtable will examine the role of the body in musical experience, perception, and cognition through dialogue between artists and scientists.1 hr 56 min
- The Search for ImmortalityThis roundtable will examine how awareness of mortality shapes human life, from early anxieties to philosophical and spiritual responses, and how scientific and spiritual developments inform ideas about transcendence, perception, and possible forms of existence beyond death.1 hr 50 min
- French Surrealism: A Revolution of the MindThis roundtable will explore French Surrealist poetry in translation, situating it within the broader history and activities of the Surrealist movement from the 1920s to the 1960s.1 hr 27 min
- Complexity and EmergenceThis roundtable will examine emergence and complexity in brain, biological, and social systems, and the implications for understanding mind, prediction, and human behavior.2 hr 20 min
- The 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.2 hr 5 min
- Cancer: 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.1 hr 29 min
- Knowledge 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.1 hr 58 min
- Responses: 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.1 hr 31 min
- Women 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.1 hr 34 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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