The Helix Center Podcast
1) Living in Difficult Times
Daily headlines have been startling and scary: “U.S. Life Expectancy Plunged in 2020, Especially for Black and Hispanic Americans,” reported The New York Times. “The Pandemic has Made Homelessness Mo...Show More
2) Coding and the new Human Phenotype: Are Natural Language Generators for Real?
The program GPT-3 can create language that gives the impression that it is thinking. What will our interaction with robots of greater and greater verbal agility mean in the near future? What sort of O...Show More
Coding and the new Human Phenotype: Are Natural Language Generators for Real?
1:38:17 | Oct 16th, 2022
3) Coding and the New Human Phenotype: Is the Universe a Metaverse?
Our panel will discuss the suggestion that we have been living in a sort of metaverse all along. This claim starts with the notion that the Universe evolves as one giant algorithmic computation, and t...Show More
4) Coding and the New Phenotype: In Search for Lost Time
How we discover codes, bearers of meaning, and how we reconstruct that meaning in archeology & paleoanthropology, in psychoanalysis, and in neuroscience research on memory.… read more »
5) Coding and the Human Phenotype: Manipulated Perception?: Fakery, Authenticity, and the Birth of NFTs
What counts as true and how we might know the truth in the age of coding. A discussion about misinformation, the decentralization of knowledge, and the struggle to establish what is real. Encoded algo...Show More
6) Coding and the New Human Phenotype: Coding, Fiction, Metafiction – the Parcellation of What Isn’t There
The humanities deal with the manipulation of ideas. Ideas can be encoded, metabolized, and contribute to cultural evolution. What roles do cultural memes – be they fact, factoid, or fiction – play in ...Show More
7) Metaphysics
Physics being the study of the fundamental properties of Nature, as the name implies, metaphysics investigates the nature of Nature, the what-must-therefore-be-the-case of those discoverable physical ...Show More
8) Psychedelics
Neuroplasticity: it’s what our brains do. We alter our minds when we engage with the world and with the people in it. But, of course, when we think of “mind altering drugs” we refer to something else....Show More
9) People & Things in Motion: Economics and the Future
The Dismal Science seems to analyze and involve most aspects of our lives.  While traditional macroeconomics continues to concern itself with  natural rates of inflation and unemployment, wi...Show More
10) Designer Genes
Supernatural and other circumventions of the natural process of conception have been an abundant wellspring for magical, mythological, and religious narratives. It was held that the widowed queen of a...Show More