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The Helix Center
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The Helix Center episodes
- Love, the InterrogativeThis roundtable will examine the nature of love across different forms and perspectives, considering insights from history, neuroscience, psychoanalysis, poetry, and other disciplines.1 hr 38 min
- Urdu Poetry: Ghalib and the GhazalThis roundtable will examine the poetry of Ghalib and the ghazal form by focusing on a single two-line verse as a way to understand the genre as a whole.1 hr 32 min
- Animal LanguageThis roundtable will examine animal communication through its sonic and phonetic dimensions, exploring how different species transmit and interpret information and what this reveals about communication more broadly.2 hr 1 min
- Male-Male Competition: Globalization, War, and ViolenceThis roundtable will examine Darwin’s concept of male-male competition and its modern interpretations, including its relevance to human behavior and evolutionary biology.1 hr 48 min
- Life and MovementThis roundtable will examine movement in life through evolution, coordination dynamics, social interaction, kinesthesia, and aesthetics, and how these perspectives help us understand how we move, adapt, and relate to others.1 hr 51 min
- Collaborations: Jazz and PoetryThis roundtable will examine jazz poetry as a written form that engages with the improvisatory, blues-based qualities of jazz, and how poetry can reflect, respond to, and collaborate with musical expression.1 hr 25 min
- Why Do Economists Disagree?A pre-election roundtable of economic theorists exploring their philosophical convergences and divergences.1 hr 59 min
- What Can Mathematics Teach Us About Mind/Brain?This roundtable will examine how mathematical models in neuroscience help explain brain function and inform our understanding of the mind.1 hr 50 min
- Where Does It End?This roundtable will examine our curiosity about endings and how ideas about the ends of consciousness, life, civilization, and the universe inform one another.1 hr 43 min
- Where Does It Begin?This roundtable will examine our curiosity about beginnings, including what constitutes a beginning and how such concepts may apply to both individual consciousness and the universe.1 hr 37 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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