In this salon (the first of a three-part mini-series), Jake Orthwein will lead a discussion on the parallels between contemporary politics and professional wrestling. It's difficult to escape the sense that there's something unreal about contemporary politics. The narrowness of the Overton Window, the pageantry of the debate stage, the artificial feuding of cable news…
Join Liz Voeller on an exploration through one of Herbert Simon’s key concepts and what it means for addressing complexity in our own lives. Systems demonstrate the property of “near-decomposability” when interactions WITHIN each subsystem are stronger than the interaction AMONG subsystems. This concept, made legible by Herbert Simon in his essay The Architecture of…
In part one of this mini-series, Alex Criddle will guide you through the ages of psychedelic usage from ancient to modern times. We'll also look at the psychedelic culture of the 60s and 70s -- the good and the bad, exploring the cultural ramifications of this period of psychedelic usage. We'll examine the reasons for…
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 will run on the fourth Friday of every month. Step into the ii comfort inn for a cathartic conversation in vulnerability, intimacy, and sexuality. In…
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…
