On Monday, November 18 Dr. John Delfs MD will deliver a talk on “Facebook, Free Will, And Our Future World: Will We Humans Use Our Brains To Save Ourselves?”
Despite our magnificent scientific and technological advances, we face climate change, terrorism, nuclear threats, immigrant crises, social and economic instability, and tyrants popping up worldwide. What’s going on? Why? Can we humans turn ourselves onto a better path?
Dr. John Delfs, neurologist, neuroscientist, and founder of “Good Wolf,” believes we now know enough about ourselves from neuroscience and related fields to turn ourselves toward a positive future, if we apply that knowledge to public policy, and to how we think, decide, and act as individuals, families, and communities.
On Monday evening Dr. Delfs will take us on a tour of the four major functions of our brains: survival, emotion, knowledge, and higher cognition. He will explain how the cause of our civilization’s problems are decisions and actions that arise from largely unconscious processes in our brains, increasingly driven by the manipulative use of more and more powerful media capabilities. He will then argue that the solution to our problems is to develop and use our capacity to become aware, self-reflective, moral agents, who work together, applying what we know, to chart a better path and make a better world.
This will be a very special presentation that you will not want to miss.