====== Research café: (Computer) Science and society (2S) ======
| [[https://ekvv.uni-bielefeld.de/kvv_publ/publ/vd?id=361016486|392172]] | Braga | Winter 2022/23 | Monday 10-12 in U10-155 |

==== Short Description ====
This time our Journal Club will in fact be a "Research café" with the title "(Computer) Science and society".

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This course will happen as a round table, always underlined by ethical discussions, and has a mixture of three main topics:

> education

> biology

> technology

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In biology, for example, we thought of starting by revisiting some elementary questions such as:

> Is the organism a mechanism (machine)?

> Is the organism controlled by its parts?

> What is the whole of life in an organism?

> Are thoughts a product of the brain?

And...

> Are we allowed to ask ourselves and answer these questions?

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In general we thought of having an open space, in which everyone will have a chance to express opinions and listen. The goal is more to enlarge our scientific views and critical senses, but we may also find new answers and pathways to follow.

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Some literature (books) for inspiration:

> The Dawn of Everything - A New History of Humanity (David Graeber and David Wengrow, 2021)

>> {{teaching:2022winter:journalclub:the-dawn-of-everything-front-matter.pdf | Front matter}}

>> {{teaching:2022winter:journalclub:the-dawn-of-everything-notes-and-references.pdf | Notes & References}}

>> {{teaching:2022winter:journalclub:the-dawn-of-everything-chap1.pdf | Chapter 1}}


> Against method (Paul Feyerabend, 1975)


> The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Thomas S. Kuhn, 1962)


> [[https://www.mentis.de/view/title/61550|Ethics and the Limits of Technology]] (Ludwig Siep, 2022)


==== Schedule ====
^ **Date** ^ **Topic** ^
| 10.10.2022 | Organization of the class | 
| 17.10.2022 | More organization |
| 24.10.2022 | [[https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/218/1/7/13568/Evolution-beyond-neo-Darwinism-a-new-conceptual|D. Noble: Evolution beyond neo-Darwinism: a new conceptual framework, J Exp Biol (2015)]] | 
| 31.10.2022 | Introduction of "Ethics and the Limits of Technology" (see above) |
| 07.11.2022 | First chapter of  "The Dawn of Everything" (see above) |
| 14.11.2022 | Noam Chomsky - How to stop the Doomsday Clock |
| 21.11.2022 | "The Open Society and its Enemies"  by Popper |
| 28.11.2022 | Against method |
| 05.12.2022 | Against method |
| 12.12.2022 | Alternative views of biology |
| 19.12.2022 | Alternative views of biology |
| Winter break ||
| 09.01.2023 | Artificial Intelligence: "Can inspiration be mechanized?" (Douglas R. Hofstadter, 1982) |
| 16.01.2023 | [[https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.01324|Sabine Hossenfelder: Superdeterminism - A Guide for the Perplexed (2020)]] |
| 23.01.2023 | Mechanism, organism |
| 30.01.2023 |  {{teaching:2022winter:journalclub:bf00997269.pdf | Robert Rosen 1993}}: Critique of objectivity, determinism, reductionism, mechanistic view of an organism |