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 2016-2017) <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marjoriikka_Ylisiurua>
Time: Friday May 19, 14h-16h Place: *room * *D.1.07*, building D, VUB ------------------------------ A transdisciplinary impact assessment of the metasystem transitions Daniel Schimmelpfennig Abstract: The evolutionary paradigm shifts of the acceleration of digital information, transforming all spheres of our individual and collective life, demands a new understanding, in which we particularly incorporate an anticipation of future realities. A transdisciplinary impact assessment of the metasystem transitions provides a holistic and coherent approach to delineate the fusion towards a bio-digital evolutionary emergence, where technological evolution will be experienced, due to its exponential development, within single lifetimes. This evolution of evolution itself embodied in the metasystem transitions is thus a reciprocal process. As we start building systems that replicate what our brains can do, the research is consequently concerned with the actual development and role of our human brains in the future. It focuses particularly on preferable images like the emergence of a neo-human, representing a new sense of individuality and consciousness. How will the rise of this new consciousness (becoming conscious of one's concrete socio-historical place in time and its revolutionary potential to unleash novel possibilities) even further transform our external-impersonal socio-symbolic organization. This crescendo or imbroglio is yet to be deciphered and subject of this partly autoethnographic, partly poststructuralist, but mostly constructionist futures research. The transdisciplinarity of the studies, including anthropological, biological, cultural, and technological notions, anticipates a multi-causal, highly complex, hyper-abstract time-frame, where fragmented thought and solely one-dimensional research becomes an unsatisfying attempt to delineate a coherent and holistic picture. Furthermore, the implementation of the Neurological Turn offers new insights into the ontological knowledge gap about our capacity of being the subject of scientific knowledge, and being the scientific agent of directional change and transformation. The biological freedom to evolve implies therefore an emancipatory ambition in which we might occupy our thought process more consciously with the elucidating of the conceit that assumes reality is a fact. The future oriented scenario work aims accordingly at illustrating that the knowledge about the future can be useless, if it is impossible to decipher its existing and emerging threats and risks as always already implicit in the present. The same is valid for its opportunities. ------------------------------ Upcoming Seminars *May 26th* Marjorikka Ylisiurua Seeking evolution from social sciences: Scientific abstracts on dynamic processes as machine learning material *June 2nd* Vincenzo De Florio Service-oriented communities: A novel architecture for smarter systems and organizations *June 9th* Tomas Veloz Chemical Self-organization Theory and its Application to the Complexity-Stability Problem 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> -- Cadell ECCO Group (VUB) <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/1> Email: [email protected] Website: https://cadelllast.com
