This May, join Slavoj Žižek, Esther Freud, Eric Weinstein, Roger Penrose, Fiona Hill, Lisa Randall, Denis Noble, Brian Greene and many more at the HowTheLightGetsIn festival Hay2023 edition!
00:00 Introduction
00:47 Is objective morality even possible? Simon Blackburn | Slavoj Žižek
06:33 What does consciousness emerge from? Hannah Critchlow | Iain McGilchrist
12:09 Is capitalism worth saving? Huy Standinh | Jesse Norman
17:11 Has physics gone astray? Lisa Randall | Bjørn Ekeberg | Roger Penrose
24:04 Has the pandemic fundamentally changed us? Sunetra Gupta | Denis Noble
HowTheLightGetsIn returns this year on May 26-29th! Join us in the idyllic town of Hay-on-Wye this spring for a magical Bank Holiday weekend of reflecting, debating and dancing with the world’s leading thinkers and performers.
Check out our programme here!
Final tickets sale here!
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Links to the debates and talks in order of appearance:
Simon Blackburn & Slavoj Žižek – Moral facts and moral fantasy (2022)
Hannah Critchlow – The key to consciousness (2023)
Iain Mcgilchrist – Secrets of the Mind (2014)
Guy Standing – The wealth paradox (2022)
Jesse Norman – The real capitalism (2011)
Lisa Randall – Dangerous data (2022)
Bjørn Ekeberg – Beyond the darkness (2023)
Roger Penrose – The future of cosmology with Roger Penrose (2023)
Sunetra Gupta – Dicing with death (2020)
Denis Noble – Dawkins re-examined (2022)
⭐ HowTheLightGetsIn HAY 2022 press review:
Independent: “The philosophy festical where you bump into a Nobel prize winner in the coffee queue”
Culture Whisper: “Philosophy, comedy and music collide”
The Telegraph: “Asking vital questions about life”
Helsingin Sanomat: “The Woodstock of intelligence”
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