During the afternoon-marathon of art and science, we talked about the degrees of freedom of the human mind and the freedom of artists, about how the brain makes decisions, about why adolescence is the age in which one can become more or less free, of the power of digital technologies to make us freer and of limiting our choices, of art and science as gyms of freedom, of how freedom is being killed in some countries today.
The event, planned and conducted by Giovanni Carrada and Cristiana Perrella, curators of the exhibition, was divided into two sessions dedicated respectively to the brain and freedom and young people and freedom, during which scientists, artists and witnesses spoke with the public.
The meeting, open to the public for free, saw a first session attended by the neurologist Salvatore Aglioti, professor of Cognitive and Social Neurosciences at the University of Rome La Sapienza, scholar of existential neurosciences, Cesare Pietroiusti - artist and doctor with a specialization in a psychiatric clinic. And a second session with interventions by the neurobiologist of learning Antonio Malgaroli, of the San Raffaele University of Milan, the sociologist of the media Marco Gui, the journalist and writer Cristina Giudici who returned to the public a story about young Italian Islamists; while journalist Yasemin Taskin spoke about the decline of democracy in Turkey and the role of young people and digital technologies in the protests.
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