• DocumentCode
    2093492
  • Title

    The era of rationality?

  • Author

    Luediger, H.

  • Author_Institution
    IMST GmbH
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    17-19 Dec. 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    1
  • Abstract
    In less than 400 years rationality took us from witch burning to the moon. Current societal developments suggest that it may take much less time to send us back to where we came from. Our languages (natural and scientific) have become vague, blurred, ambiguous and inconsistent; what we say is increasingly no longer what we mean or what corresponds to experience and other kinds of knowledge. Often it has no meaning at all any more. In this carnival of words our intentions are valued according to the degree they exceed the possible and knowable, while their correlation with reality and common sense is considered a pre-post-modern relict. When the problem is made the solution and the paradox a methodology we indeed feel like kids in a candy store. The difference is that they understand that it is a dream.
  • Keywords
    cognitive systems; human reason; mental ordering schemes; natural science; rationality; societal developments;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    IT Revolutions, 2008 First Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Venice
  • Print_ISBN
    978-963-9799-38-7
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5075043