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The Helix Center — 139 episodes

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Title
1

Reading and The Brain

2

Medicine and AI

3

Where Have All the Isms Gone?: On the Evolution of Knowledge

4

Why We Write

5

Fail Again, Fail Better

6

See Memory

7

Resurgence of Freud

8

Neurodiversity

9

Mindfulness Meditation: Benefits and Dilemmas

10

Music and Mind

11

Why War?

12

Otherness

13

The Poetry of Aging

14

Come Out Wherever You Are: In Search of Consciousness

15

Striking a Chord: Hearing and Space

16

A ≠ B → Taste & Discernment

17

Touch as the Ur-Sense: From Presence to Poesy

18

Discovering the What and the Wherefore: Scents and Sensibility

19

Synthetic Consciousness: Seeing and Believing

20

The Effects of Media

21

Covid and Literature

22

Permanence and Impermanence of Mathematical Concepts

23

Emotion

24

Shakespeare Forever

25

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

26

The Technē of Memory

27

The Body and Psychosis

28

Living in Difficult Times

29

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

30

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

31

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

32

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

33

Coding and the New Phenotype: In Search for Lost Time

34

Metaphysics

35

Psychedelics

36

People & Things in Motion: Economics and the Future

37

Designer Genes

38

Stress

39

Panacea or Poison: Placebos and Nocebos in Modern Medicine

40

Populism

41

The Many Minds of Memory

42

Ethics & AI

43

How Deep Do We Go? Behavior, Mind, and The 4-Billion-Year History of Life

44

Mathematics and Other Realities

45

Emergence of Empathy: Encountering The Other Through Fiction

46

Mechanization of Math

47

Lying

48

Status

49

Shame

50

Living in the Anthropocene

51

Life in the Universe

52

Math models Mind

53

The Animal Human Continuum

54

The Beauty and Unity of Mathematics

55

The Future of Psychiatry

56

Creative Turbulence

57

The Completeness of Physics

58

Boredom

59

Transhumanist Predictions and the Human Predicament

60

Mind Matters: Past, Present, and Future

61

Science, Art & Society 2

62

STEAM & the Future of Education 1

63

Science-Art Collaboration 2

64

Science, Art & Society 1

65

Steam and the Future of Education 2

66

Science-Art Collaboration 1

67

American Poetry Today

68

“Fake” Knowledge: Knowing and the Illusion of Knowing

69

Complexity and Emergence II: Visions of Cosmic Order, from Particles to People

70

Design in Nature

71

Music to Whose Ears III: Music and Healing

72

The Displaced and The Other

73

Pain

74

The Library as Reality and Metaphor

75

Autism and the Mind/Brain

76

Embodied AI

77

Happiness

78

Fear: Wherefore, Whence?

79

Understanding Genius II: Women

80

The Meditative State

81

Genes, Computers, and Medicine

82

A Freudian Perspective on What Ails the World Today: Part 3

83

A Freudian Perspective on What Ails the World Today: Part 4

84

A Freudian Perspective on What Ails the World Today: Part 5

85

A Freudian Perspective on What Ails the World Today

86

A Freudian Perspective on What Ails the World Today: Part 2

87

Translation Matters

88

Speak, Memory

89

The Realm of Mystery

90

Understanding Genius

91

Epigenetics at Work

92

Human and Nonhuman Minds: Continuities and Discontinuities

93

Trauma and its Aftereffects, Part I: War and Genocide

94

The Changing Nature of Free Will

95

The Mind of a Child

96

Curiosity

97

Apprehending Consciousness

98

Particle Fever / The Quest

99

Particle Fever / The Quest: Part 2 Q&A

100

The Sublime Experience

101

Music to Whose Ears II: Embodied Cognition

102

The Search for Immortality

103

French Surrealism: A Revolution of the Mind

104

Complexity and Emergence

105

The Span of Infinity

106

Cancer: Body & Mind

107

Knowledge and Limitations

108

Responses: Poetry with Patrick Rosal and Jean Valentine

109

Women and the Work World

110

Women and Science

111

Synchronicity: On the Spectrum of Mind and Matter

112

Identity and Fanaticism

113

Biology of Mind

114

From Children’s Sights to Our Insights: Ethiopian Children’s Drawings, Stories and Inner Lives

115

Secrecy and Transparency

116

Aby Warburg: Art, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis: Day 2, Part 2

117

Aby Warburg: Art, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis: Day 2, Part 3

118

Aby Warburg: Art, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis: Day 2

119

Aby Warburg: Art, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis: Day 1, Part 2

120

Aby Warburg: Art, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis: Day 1, Part 3

121

Aby Warburg: Art, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis: Day 1

122

The Amygdaloids Warburg Symposium Concert

123

Altruism and Empathy

124

Second Annual Heavy MeNtal Variety Show

125

Synthetic and Systems Biology: Reinventing the Code of Life

126

Ignorance and Curiosity

127

Music to Whose Ears? Music, Emotion, and Mind

128

Elizabeth Bishop: A Conversation about Her Poetry

129

The Topology of Fear

130

Love, the Interrogative

131

Urdu Poetry: Ghalib and the Ghazal

132

Animal Language

133

Male-Male Competition: Globalization, War, and Violence

134

Life and Movement

135

Collaborations: Jazz and Poetry

136

Why Do Economists Disagree?

137

What Can Mathematics Teach Us About Mind/Brain?

138

Where Does It End?

139

Where Does It Begin?