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Baroness Susan Greenfield


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Baroness Susan Greenfield
ID: The Quest for Meaning in the 21st Century

20 May 08
Arnolfini, Bristol

In association with Science City Bristol

Our individuality is under attack as never before. Two huge new forces - new technology and the rise in fundamentalism - are in their different ways combining to threaten the control of our own minds and so the whole way our society functions. We have never more urgently needed to look at what we want for ourselves as individuals - for our children, and for our future society.

Baroness Greenfield, Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, draws on the latest findings in neuroscience to show how far we are and can be in control of the development of our brains and minds - and the actions we need to take now both to safeguard our individuality and to find the fulfilment which our current unfettered materialism cannot provide. All this inevitably poses many questions about human nature, our past, what makes us individual, the connection between the brain and the mind, what a society of fulfilled individuals would actually mean - all of which Susan Greenfield attempts to answer.

INTERVIEW
Please click on the audio button below to hear an interview with Baroness Susan Greenfield

Interview with Alan Sokal (10 mins) Interview with Baroness Susan Greenfield (9 mins)