Please distribute to others who may be interested... You are hereby invited to a seminar in our twelfth interdisciplinary series on Evolution, Complexity and Cognition <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108> (ECCO 2015-2016)
Time: Friday April 22, 14h-16h Place: *room **D.1.07, *building D, VUB ------------------------------ The Human of the Human. On Antihumanistic Rehumanisation in Societal and Psychic Self-Description Tjorven Harmsen Abstract: Human beings do not communicate (Luhmann 1995, 2012/13). As fundamental as this assumption is given within Systems Theory - it might sound unfamiliar or even repellent not only for other social description, but also within the thoughts of an individual person (cf. Baecker 2014: 101). The upcoming seminar will discuss why, or rather: under what circumstances, the very finding of this disjunction of human and communicational structures can yet be seen as important to retain, and, paradoxically, may result in an even deeper understanding of a togetherness of all forms. Analysing pre-modern European societies and the historical unification of social structures towards today's world society (Stichweh 2004) there can be found that due to the use of dualistic principles social distinction shows rigid characteristics that go along with trivialising effects (v. Foerster / Broecker 2010). As a result, despite increased individualisation claims even today's human psyche can be diagnosed with a tendency of over-adaptation to communicational structures (Baecker 2014: 73). However, looking at possibilities of future societal development – for instance the “Global Brain“ (Heylighen et al., cf. Last 2016), or “Society 4.0“ (cf. Baecker 2016) – the individual human being likely will be asked to appear even more flexible in (re-)actions and self-responsible in choices. Maybe more and more a personality is needed that shows the ability of drawing “fluid“ distinction (from: conversations with F. Heylighen and ECCO)? How can such a “fluid self“ (ibid.) be defined, how does it show itself? How much social preforming is needed for a psyche to develop abilities for acting in uncertain situations? What are conducive contextual structures? These and other questions are to be of interest. ------------------------------ Upcoming Seminars *April 29 * Francis Heylighen *The Offer Network Protocol: mathematical foundations and a roadmap for the development of a global brain* *May 13 * Cristiano Castelfranchi *May 20* Marta Lenartowicz *May 27* Vincenzo De Florio *June 3 * Viktoras Veitas *June 10 * David R. Weinbaum (Weaver) *June 17* Nathalie Mezza-Garcia *June 24* Mixel Kiemen See also the ECCO/GBI calendar <https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=azMyN252aWluM2JoMnU3MXY5OGt2ZzliOGdAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ> . You can add this calendar to your calendar application through here <https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/k327nviin3bh2u71v98kvg9b8g%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics> More info about the ECCO seminar program: http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108 <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108> -- Evo Evo Busseniers - Seminar Coordinator ECCO Group (VUB) <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/1> Email: [email protected] Website: http://vub.academia.edu/EvoBusseniers <http://be.linkedin.com/in/weaver9/>
