ICTs in the Contemporary World seminar

Hans H. Diebner
Head of the Basic Research Project, Institute for New Media in Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Wednesday 22 February 2006
11.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m.


Fifth Floor, Tower One

The following considerations have been stimulated by observing a change of opinion of physicists on subjective probabilities as they have been widespreadedly used in medicine for a long time. This is interpreted as a latent commitment to hermeneutics. It is, however, at the same time a venturous claim to “algorithmize hermeneutics“. This mission has an alarming potential to outshine the advantages of artificial intelligent design. We are exposed to a sneaky enslavement by “prejudice confirming“ algorithms based on tracked information on our previous decisions. On the other hand, the algorithms' results are approximations to our decision-making only. Dasein has an edge on its description. A competent handling based on knowledge, however, is necessary.
 

Hans H. Diebner  is currently managing the basic research project at the Institute for New Media in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. From July 1999 until December 2005 he was head of the Institute for Basic Research at the Centre for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany. He is trained in physics and earned his diploma degree in 1994 and the doctoral degree in 1999, both supervised by Otto E. Rössler who is well-known in the field of chaos research. Hans Diebner‘s research interests are in  complex systems with a focus on cognitive systems. Within the concepts of Performative Science and Operational Hermeneutics he investigates the evolution of knowledge in a system-theoretical way in combination with concepts from hermeneutics.

He is ambitious in presenting complex scientific results in a sensually perceptive way to a broader audience whereby he adopts artistic modus operandi. However, “performative science“ is understood as an applicable practice for the scientists themselves, too, at least to create meaningful hypotheses.

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