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2. Phil Redmond: "Whose identity is it anyway?"
Professor Phil Redmond, founder of Mersey TV and writer and producer of some of British television's most influential drama, is today one of Liverpool's leading voices on the city's creative, media and technological future. He launches Free Thinking 07 with a personal and wide-ranging exploration of the competing political and cultural forces redefining our personal identities: "Whose Identity is it Anyway?"
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.Free Thinking 07 event poll 02
Can you create your identity?
- Yes24 votes
(80%) - No3 votes(10%)
- Don't know3 votes(10%)
Total votes: 30
Results are indicative and may not reflect public opinion
Mary, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
You create your own identity, as much as you create your own reality. Both identity and reality are interpreted through your "sense" of consciousness. It is all in the interpretation and preception done by each individual. My knowledge of my identity may be different from your knowledge of my identity, creating different perceptions and opinions. Both are true. So with that logic, you are in control of your identity as much as the next person is.
Rob Duncan, Salt Lake City, Utah USA
You can create your identity but only within the context of words, which are the construct of your society. So most of you identity will always be an extension of this construct by virtue of the words you use to explain or describe it. Most of our freedom is illusory.
Andy H, Liverpool
Given business's cross geo-political borders, will they become more powerful than Governments, in the collection and use of data collected about the individual?
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