'Has your Phone Replaced Your Brain?', Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas, The Stand Comedy Club

Anderson, M. (Presenter)
Susan Morrison (Host)

School of History, Classics and Archaeology

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Public Engagement – Public lecture/debate/seminar

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Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas: Has Your Phone Replaced Your Brain

Period	4 Aug 2023
Event type	Other
Location	Edinburgh, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International

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Take one top academic, some dangerous ideas, add one comedian and it’s the force of nature that is the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas (CODI). Hosted by comedian Susan Morrison, and now in its eleventh year, CODI is sixty minutes of rapid-fire research from some of the finest minds in the country. What if your mind is not only ‘in’ your brain? How exactly does your mind extend across brain, body and beyond? Philosopher Dave Chalmers claims that if his iPhone were implanted in his head, it would just speed up the processing; it is already part of his mind. But claims about ‘the extended mind’ have been around a long time: for the Romans, the iPhone equivalent was a slave. We are all out of our heads, argues Dr Miranda Anderson, and we always have been.