Event in German.

Complexity research deals with the interdisciplinary question of how order can be created or patterns can emerge from the diverse interactions between different components, in which the number of unpredictable elements is enormous. Non-linearity, self-organization and emergence are common characteristics of complex systems.

In the natural sciences as well as in early systems theory, cybernetics, operational epistemologies and complex adaptive systems, complex organization is about the self-organizing processes of a system, whereby a certain order can be recognized from disorder.

Computer models, today the technical epistemology par excellence, serve this purpose. Mathematical computer models make dynamic and non-linear processes recognizable by searching for order or stability in chaotic states. Such a quantitative model leads to a feedback relationship between digitalization and complexity: complexity thus appears less as a problem than as the justification for a systemic digitalization drive of algorithmic governmentality. This raises the question of the epistemological scope of such a technology: Where are the limits of the application of such techniques and what knowledge do these technologies produce? On which normative conditions is the knowledge production of such technologies based?

The aim of the workshop “Digitization & Epistemologies of Complexity. Observation, Measurement & Reduction” is to consider the processes of pattern recognition as an epistemic concern when orders are sought in non-linear dynamic or chaotic processes through algorithmic models.

Program: The first day of the workshop is dedicated to an introduction to the epistemic challenge of complexity through a journey into the landscape of science. The second day will deal with a scientific epistemological explanation of complexity, where the challenging question of observing complexity through algorithmic models will be discussed with two complexity researchers from the natural sciences and philosophy.

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Program

30.5.2024, 2-6 p.m.: Komplexität und Kontingenz: Ordnungsbegriff im Wandel
Lecturer: Dr. Arantzazu Saratxaga Arregi (Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Freiburg im Breisgau)

31.5.2024, 2-6 pm: Beobachtungen der Komplexität in Diskussion: Zwischen Vorhersage, Modellierung
und Messung
Speakers: Prof. Dr. Fausto Fraisopi (University of Freiburg) and Prof. Dr. Karoline Wiesner (University of Potsdam)

Organization: Prof. Dr. Jan Distelmeyer (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam/University of Potsdam)

Grafik: Geek 3, CC BY-SA 3.0

An event as part of the ZeM’s annual focus “Control of Loss”.