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30 interdisciplinary topics spanning 14 seasons of inquiry

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Art & Aesthetics

46 roundtables
Where Have All the Isms Gone?: On the Evolution of Knowledge
Why We Write
See Memory

Neuroscience

41 roundtables
See Memory
Neurodiversity
Music and Mind

Science

38 roundtables
See Memory
Music and Mind
Come Out Wherever You Are: In Search of Consciousness

Philosophy

37 roundtables
Where Have All the Isms Gone?: On the Evolution of Knowledge
Why We Write
Fail Again, Fail Better

Biology & Evolution

29 roundtables
Medicine and AI
Synthetic Consciousness: Seeing and Believing
A =/= B -> Taste & Discernment

Emotion & Affect

28 roundtables
Fail Again, Fail Better
See Memory
Neurodiversity

Consciousness & Mind

25 roundtables
Fail Again, Fail Better
Mindfulness Meditation: Benefits and Dilemmas
The Poetry of Aging

Artificial Intelligence

24 roundtables
Medicine and AI
Where Have All the Isms Gone?: On the Evolution of Knowledge
Why We Write

Psychology

23 roundtables
Fail Again, Fail Better
Resurgence of Freud
Why War?

Physics & Cosmology

23 roundtables
See Memory
Striking a Chord: Hearing and Space
Living in Difficult Times

Education & Knowledge

22 roundtables
Where Have All the Isms Gone?: On the Evolution of Knowledge
Coding and the Human Phenotype: Manipulated Perception? Fakery, Authenticity, and the Birth of NFTs
Ethics & AI

History & Culture

21 roundtables
Where Have All the Isms Gone?: On the Evolution of Knowledge
Otherness
Synthetic Consciousness: Seeing and Believing

Ethics & Morality

21 roundtables
Medicine and AI
Come Out Wherever You Are: In Search of Consciousness
Living in Difficult Times

Identity & Self

20 roundtables
See Memory
Otherness
Come Out Wherever You Are: In Search of Consciousness

Society & Politics

19 roundtables
Neurodiversity
Why War?
Otherness

Mathematics

17 roundtables
Permanence and Impermanence of Mathematical Concepts
Coding and the New Human Phenotype: Is the Universe a Metaverse?
Coding and the New Phenotype: In Search for Lost Time

Memory

15 roundtables
See Memory
The Techne of Memory
Living in Difficult Times

Medicine & Health

15 roundtables
Medicine and AI
See Memory
Resurgence of Freud

Technology & Digital

13 roundtables
The Effects of Media
The Techne of Memory
Coding and the New Human Phenotype: Is the Universe a Metaverse?

Interdisciplinary

13 roundtables
Math Models Mind
Mind Matters: Past, Present, and Future
STEAM & the Future of Education 1

Literature & Writing

11 roundtables
Why We Write
Fail Again, Fail Better
See Memory

Language & Communication

11 roundtables
Why We Write
The Poetry of Aging
Striking a Chord: Hearing and Space

Psychoanalysis

10 roundtables
Resurgence of Freud
Otherness
Coding and the New Phenotype: In Search for Lost Time

Death & Spirituality

10 roundtables
Mindfulness Meditation: Benefits and Dilemmas
The Meditative State
The Sublime Experience

Poetry

9 roundtables
The Poetry of Aging
Touch as the Ur-Sense: From Presence to Poesy
American Poetry Today

Music

9 roundtables
Music and Mind
Striking a Chord: Hearing and Space
Music to Whose Ears III: Music and Healing

Space & Astrobiology

8 roundtables
Striking a Chord: Hearing and Space
Life Beyond Earth: When and How Will it be Found?
Life in the Universe

Economics

7 roundtables
People & Things in Motion: Economics and the Future
Science, Art & Society 2
Science, Art & Society 1

Ecology & Nature

7 roundtables
Metaphysics
People & Things in Motion: Economics and the Future
Living in the Anthropocene

Psychedelics & Altered States

2 roundtables
The Body and Psychosis
Psychedelics