Join Interintellect Host Brian Toh, in this guided physical-exploratory salon, taking you through an experience of discovering your embodiment and how to "move better". "The Dance is an animate composition in space. Dancing is movement made significant; technique used to express spiritual content in intelligible form" - Armitage, 1969 The Wind once asked a Tree…
In this salon, debut host Eloy Fisher leads a discussion on our reasons for wanting to disappear. Our world invites us to excel in ways that our forefathers not so long ago deemed impossible. However, how much of that engagement acts as an eraser for our narratives, as we sketch them in thick and dark scrawls given…
Calling all Central Texas Interintellects! Join host Alaka Halder to kick off the summer with an IRL meetup at Easy Tiger East. We'll catch up with all the friends we've made during a year of Zoom-only salons, trade Texas stories and recommendations, and discuss our visions and plans for the Interintellect locally and online. What…
After two beautiful Silent Salons, we're coming together once again to sit, read, study, and work together, quietly. As before, we will open and close with short discussions on the nature of silence in our lives, what relaxes and reassures us, and how community can provide a space not just for conversation but contemplation. I…
Debut host John Danaher leads a discussion on how philosophy can be applied to our everyday regrets and failures. We all have failures; we all have regrets. How can we live with them? Is it rational to 'minimise regret'? Do we over-ascribe failure to our own lives? This Salon will explore these questions and more, considering in…
In this Interintellect salon, Anwar AlKandari will gather the curious readers around the world to embark on a journey through novels. “The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.” —Ursula K. Le Guin Remember the times…
The next 10–10,000 years. What can we expect? What do we want? What should we want? A discussion of Bostrom, Sidgwick and Scheffler, hosted by Peter Hartree. In this salon, we'll consider questions like: Where should we start, if we want to think about the next 10–10,000 years? How trustworthy are our intuitions about the…
This new track of monthly Interintellect Salons by two secret ii hosts explores the varying levels of intimacy in sex and relationships. Save the date: this track of ii Salons…
In part two of this mini-series, Alex Criddle will lead a discussion on the usage of psychedelics as medicine and psychedelic therapy to heal physical and mental maladies. There are numerous clinical trials ongoing at places like Johns Hopkins, NYU, and MAPS. What are these studies finding? How are they using psychedelics as medicine? Psychedelic…
We, Reddy2go and Eyal Shay chose to join hands and play together for our next salon. Join us for a salon celebrating collaboration, openness, levity, yea-saying, and reciprocal creativity. Individuals may boast success or be enthroned, yet no-one has ever achieved anything great alone. Every great leap toward survival and progress was only achieved thanks…
In this salon, Tanya Raj will lead a deep dive discussion and analysis on The Philosophy of The Little Prince and what this classic children’s book can teach adults. The novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry is a book that transcends generations and has been loved by children and adults alike. A philosophical tale of humanist…
In this salon, Zac Yap and Yudhistira lead a discussion on the potential harms of formal education through schools and college, and possible paths of reimagining education from scratch. Drawing on Ivan Illich's 1971 book titled Deschooling Society, we critically evaluate, update and extend the book's arguments across cultures and borders. Has the vision of…
