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"The art of modeling is to match formalism and target system such that the model is congruent for our given purposes and captures all the possible system behaviors that are relevant in our specific situation."

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Some news on the book! At least a teaser:
We added artwork to ch11: "The Art of Modelling."

https://www.expandingpossibilities.org/11-the-art-of-modelling.html

And the new chapter 12 will drop in the next few days, with two massive appendices on modeling formalisms in biology and category theory.

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Für jene von euch, die im Sommer in Österreich unterwegs sind: #THE_ZoNE eröffnet bereits ihre nächste Ausstellung

#REWILDING

im schloss lind (das andere heimatmuseum), Neumarkt, Steiermark,

am 10. Mai 2025.

Die Ausstellung läuft bis im Herbst.

Mehr Info und Events hier:
https://schlosslind.at/aktuelles

#ArtScience #BeyondTheAgeOfMachines

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Sa. 26.4.2025, 16:00

Gallerie rauminhalt
Schleifmühlengasse 13, 1040 Wien

„𝗸𝗔𝗜𝗻𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘇?“ – 𝗞ö𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝗿 𝗠𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗱𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗽𝗼𝗹 𝗮𝘂𝗳 𝗞𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁ä𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗲𝗻?

mit Tom Fürstner,
und Johannes Jäger.

#TheZoNE #PushingTheBoundaries #BeyondTheAgeOfMachines #AlgorithmicMimicry #AI #ArtScience

EINLADUNG:

art SALON science

Sa 26. April 2025 | um 16:00 Uhr Galerie rauminhalt Schleifmihlgasse 13 | 1040 Wien

»KAIne Intelligenz“ | Kénnen wir Menschen das Monopol auf Kreativitat halten? es diskutieren

Johannes Jager Evolutionsbiologe und Wissenschaftsphilosoph, erforscht die Grenzen mechanistischer Weltbilder

Tom Fürstner Mathematiker & Technologie-Philosoph, Experte fir Kryptografie und digitale Transformation IS www.artandscience.at art+science

Hurrah! Mein erster Podcast auf Deutsch: "Interessante Zeiten" mit Tobias März.

KI, Metakrise und die Wissenschaft des 21. Jahrhunderts, alles in nur 2 Stunden!

https://youtu.be/3bGSadwU3gc

Eine ausführlichere Erklärung gibt es hier:

https://mailchi.mp/1a725fd8abfa/mein-interview-bei-veit-lindau-17231159?e=dd114c45d2

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The opening of our #ArtScience exhibition "Intangible" at Gallerie rauminhalt in Vienna (on Thu), & the walkabout (yesterday) were a great success!

Here is a beautiful picture gallery of the show, by our curator Basak Senova: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjC74jE.

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Boosting my essay on #metamodern #science once more on here: how to reconstruct after postmodern deconstruction

https://www.whatisemerging.com/opinions/toward-a-metamodern-science

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Title / image of the author:
Johannes Jaeger
Toward a Metamodern Science
The Machine View is Blocking our Vision

Quote: "Metamodern science promises a way forward and out: an awe-inspiring and never-ending journey of discovery through experience that leads us into harmony with what is real and what is truly valuable to us. What are we waiting for? There are new windmills to be chased. Let’s be on our way!"

Quote-mining my own book for an arts exhibition: our mechanistic worldview comes straight down from Descartes' belief in God. That's it. That's the entire evidence for it.

The world is not a machine! Never was. Never will be.
https://www.expandingpossibilities.org/an-emerging-book.html

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Quote: “Too few people remember this today, but the idea that the world is a machine, that our bodies are machines, comes straight from Descartes’ piety. It is a religious credo, not a rationalist’s evidence-based insight. And that is what it remains today: nothing but an unsupported metaphysical dogma. Tell that to a contemporary mechanicist: their worldview is based on nothing but magic! They’ll be outraged, incredulous. They’ll hate you for it. But it’s true.”

A little quote from #BeyondTheAgeOfMachines
(ch4: "Death to the Demon")

https://www.expandingpossibilities.org/4-death-to-the-demon.html

Hubris will be our downfall.

Quote from chapter 4 ("Death to the Demon") of "Beyond the Age of Machines":

This is the simple crux of the matter: if you want certain knowledge, then science is not your best choice. Instead, go to church! Join a cult. Have a revelation.

Although much less obviously murderous than your average religious fanatic, believers in absolute scientific truth and technological solutions for everything may ultimately be as bad for the future of humanity as any fundamentalist reactionary. It will likely be an overestimation of our own capacities that brings about humanity’s downfall.

The age of machines is coming to an end.

It's not politics, it's physics.

Animated short: https://youtu.be/j8KlhAMtJ4A

Full-length video lecture: https://youtu.be/Bznl9e9uftU

Full-text chapter:
https://www.expandingpossibilities.org/3-the-age-of-machines.html

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It should be plain and simple: we won’t be able to continue at this level of reckless consumption for much longer. That’s not a political opinion. It’s physics. Don’t be fooled by any overly optimistic narrative. Technology won’t save us. There is no miracle breakthrough in sight that will allow us to replace the sources of cheap and effective materials and energy that we are currently depleting. Even if we did somehow manage to overcome this obstacle, we would likely continue on our path of planetary (self-)destruction. We are burning through our local entropy gradient like there is no tomorrow. This means that extracting more materials and energy will take an increasing amount of effort in the coming years (both in terms of work and energy invested).

A little teaser from the new book chapter: "The World is Not a Set."

Working hard to get it published before the end of the month...

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If you learn only one thing from our book, let it be this: our large world is not formalisable. More precisely, it is not formalisable in its entirety. If you take this on board, then it is evident that the aim of science cannot be to generate some kind of ultimate theory of everything. Not only is it unlikely that this is possible, but it is also not what we want. A completely formalised world is small and thus hostile to life and freedom. As an alternative, our kind of science is concerned with making maps of the territory: more maps, more trustworthy maps, and also more useful maps. The ultimate aim of science is not to unify all of these maps into one big super-map. That would not be useful. Instead, it is to provide us limited beings with robust tools for an actionable understanding of our large world: allowing us to find our way around, to act in coherent and meaningful ways, to recognise our situation, to be truly at home in the universe.

There will never be life or sentience in a digital simulation. The idea is completely ridiculous.

Wanna know why? Read my book.
https://expandingpossibilities.org/an-emerging-book.html

Also: it has amazing artwork by Marcus Neustetter.

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For those interested in our research on the "Pushing the Boundaries" grant, and progress on the #BeyondTheAgeOfMachines book, check out the "Quick Thoughts" section of our project website. It gives you a nice timeline of what's going on: https://www.expandingpossibilities.org/quick-thoughts.

A new short video is out: "Church-Turing-Deutsch," an examination of the strange view that the universe *is* literally (like) a computer.

https://youtu.be/KqlXfLpmHgs?si=7uge5scP-K9yT-QO

This is the contemporary version of the view of the world as a machine.

As usual:
Artwork: Marcus Neustetter
Text: @yoginho

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Double whammy today! Marcus is on a roll, and we have uploaded *TWO* short films today:

1. The Large World: https://youtu.be/6Voxb9XzBH8

2. Mechanistic Maps: https://youtu.be/CM1NAiX7Fo8

Check them out!

Art: Marcus Neustetter
Text: Johannes Jaeger

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For those of you who are interested in such matters as the foundations of mathematics, paradoxes, and weird hypersets, we now have an appendix on set theory that discusses all these fascinating topics: https://www.expandingpossibilities.org/a3-some-words-about-set-theory.html

Feedback welcome. Especially if we got any of the math wrong...

https://spore.social/@yoginho/113775513686699207

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"Für Pessimismus, ist es leider etwas zu spät." https://vimeo.com/583309947

Philipp Blom (dessen "Unterwerfung" ich gerade lese) bringt die Probleme unserer Zeit auf den Punkt.

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#BeyondTheAgeOfMachines: 11 chapters, 3 appendices into the book, and we've come to this:

Formula for a set that contains all sets that do not contain themselves.

Also check out our new video lecture: "The Age of Machines." #BeyondTheAgeOfMachines

https://youtu.be/Bznl9e9uftU

It sets up the stage for our argument, explaining what we mean by the machine view & why we need to move beyond it at this point in history.

Author: @yoginho
Art: Marcus Neustetter

What better way to end the year than with this beautiful collage by Marcus Neustetter? It shows all his art for ch6, #BeyondTheAgeOfMachines: "Mechanistic Maps."

Marcus uses images generated by a simple AI app and draws over them, leaving you guessing what is human & what is machine.

You can find ch1-11 of the book here: https://www.expandingpossibilities.org/an-emerging-book.html

We also made short video teasers for ch1-4: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaQqHib5J6MjxVRdRoGPgwZUBDRyYS1fG

And full-length lectures for ch1-4: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaQqHib5J6MioqbNdYuw0WGzo_b6cKokm

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