The Brain is Wider than the Sky
14th Nov 2011; 19:00
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In his new book, 'The Brain is Wider than the Sky' Bryan Appleyard draws on his experience as a writer on science, new technology and the arts, to chart the tantalizing choices we now face and the questions we should be asking ourselves as fast-moving technological forces shape our future and define the priorities of the new machine age.Do we love our machines so much that we risk becoming more like them? What will we lose if we do?
What are we learning from the work of neuroscientists, who work at the intersection of science and art, the brain and the mind, and who seem to be closing in on a new definition of the human? Can human consciousness ever be captured on a scanner? What does all this scientific activity tell us about the origins of creativity, the most distinctive human quality, and does it matter any more?
Join Bryan Appleyard and Rod Liddle for a special “in conversation” event at the RSA, as they discuss how we can embrace the ‘new complexity” and reclaim the full depth of human experience.
Speakers: Bryan Appleyard, cultural commentator, Sunday Times columnist and author of 'The Brain is Wider than the Sky' (Orion, 2011) and Rod Liddle, print, radio and television journalist and associate editor, The Spectator.
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