In our time, the question of whether a machine can become human is in the foreground. But- could humans be machines? Psycho-cybernetics is determined by the idea that the human body is a machine. Although …
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Is man a machine capable of learning?
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Climate change, population growth and scarcity of resources – what options do we have to secure our existence?
We have only one planet – our Earth! Mathematically one could therefore say that we live in a “closed system”. There are therefore only limited options for climate protection and for securing our existence on …
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Multitasking here, mindfulness there?
Multitasking – everywhere and nowhere Those who are dealing with different things at the same time share their attention. Mindfulness on the other hand is the focusing of attention. Those who practice mindfulness concentrate fully …
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Correction of everyday life?
We all dream – sometimes consciously during the day – and also unconsciously at night. Probably dreams have the function of contrasting our everyday life. They make us aware of the possibilities we have and …
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Are we supposed to believe everything we think?
The voice in our head – is it the real us? Is it our subconscious that speaks to us and knows our true desires? No, it’s not our subconscious As early as the 1930s, the …
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Love – a learnable art?
Our culture of capitalism is regarded as the cause of many problems. Among other things, for our misconception of love. In capitalist culture, it is market value that counts! The value of an item is …
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Self-discipline?
How do self-disciplined people manage to win the battle against their7n inner bastard? Kentaro Fujita, who is researching self-discipline at Ohio State University, believes that they do not fight at all. They simply enjoy the …
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Free will?
Every person should be allowed to follow his free will in order to develop his personality. That this free will exists at all is part of the basis of the philosophical school of thought of …
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The lie of the age of fake news!
Time and again we hear about fake news, our era is even called the “postfactual age”. The digital media are often cited as the reason for the beginning of this new era. Proof of this …
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Why dream of the future?
Viktor Frankl, an Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor, is convinced that a vision of one’s own future can even save lives. He explained that most people who survived a concentration camp did so because of …
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Justice with oneself and everything
Normally, we all have a sense of justice, though sometimes as different as our experiences and personalities themselves. We speak of a “sense of justice” and of a “sense of justice”. The question of how …
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The human soul
Where is the soul of a person before he is born and after he has died? Since the beginning of our time people have been concerned with the question of the nature and constitution of …
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The future of sanctions?
I’m in the middle of Berlin, visiting a friend. History blows at every corner of this city. Berlin – Moabit Today a sought-after residential area in the middle of the city, poor working class district …
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Are we all certifiable?
The condition of guilt – free will! It is not clear whether the concept of free will is merely an illusion. Reinhard Merkel – Denker, Professor of Criminal Law and Philosophy of Law remarks that …
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The world stands head and tails with Blockchain!
by Pavel Romanenko and Susanne Gold Blockchain is widely and controversially discussed because it brings nothing less than the potential for revolution. Intermediaries, control bodies and all kinds of settlement agencies could make them superfluous. …
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Empathy – a cognitive megatrend
Empathy is regarded as the tool par excellence for putting oneself in another person’s shoes. But – what is empathy and – is it really always good for us? Cognition researchers distinguish two types of …
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Flying – Utopia and the curse of man
Subjected to the weight of the body, man can feel no greater longing than when he sees the migration of birds in the sky setting out for unreachable distances. Air travel to distant countries and …
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It is normal to be different
A net story by Reingard Eberle A few weeks ago, I was visiting the maternity ward of our hospital My dear work colleague has born her first child on 18. 7. A son. The birth …
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Digital manipulation and human nature
Social life has changed. Digital communication has changed the structure and nature of our social relationships as well as our access to information and knowledge. Unless we live in seclusion as hermits, we can hardly …
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Utopias and innovations between hope and horror
In 1900, X-rays were a spectacular new technology. It enabled a fantasy from the land of utopias: Suddenly it was possible to make the previously invisible visible. This innovation was so extraordinary and fascinating that …
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A village with the luminosity of an urban utopia or possible reality?u
In the 70s it was utopia – the urbanization of the village: rural idyll and urban advantages in one. All the advantages of the city – work, entertainment and creative flair of the metropolis combined …
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The dream of a better life in the city – unbroken.
At the beginning of the last century, when a person imagined the city of the future, as this little picture from the Hamburg Postcard Museum shows, the cities had a different appearance than today. When …
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Shaping the future? An illusion!
Nobody can. In The Black Swan, the scientist Nassim Nicholas Taleb shows that unlikely events such as the invention of the Internet, reactor accidents and the Second World War occur more frequently than expected. What …
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What is nudging?
A child is standing in front of the school on the first day of school and does not dare go in – the mother pushes the child together with the school bag easily and without …
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Not only is intelligence artificial, but so is the holiday!
Artificial holiday worlds Today people have high expectations of their holidays. It should be the perfect mixture of comfortable ambience, impressions of the foreign, a little bit of sport and at the same time almost …
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Dealing with privacy – learning from the history of the potato
For some it is sacred, for others it is the same: privacy. Ever since the last Facebook scandal and the EU’s new data protection regulation, everyone is talking about it – our privacy. The world …
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Fishing 4.0: The digital fisherman for man and sea
Feeding the growing world population is one of the most burning issues of the future. Global population growth is challenging the food industry in an unprecedented way. While on the one hand the yields of …
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Open Innovation – Many minds. Many ideas.
Solutions to the problems of the world – Opening up research Climate change, seas full of waste, dwindling energy sources, bee deaths, micropollutants in drinking water – our world is full of questions for which …
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The Line of Survival
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Thick potatoes instead of thick air – precision farming for smart farmers
Thick potatoes instead of thick air – digital agriculture Whether it is the ageing society of the industrialised nations or the boom of young people in the developing countries – everyone has to eat. …
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Digital democracy – the end of power and powerlessness
Today, individual citizens are not in a position to have a decisive influence on political debates. They relinquish their right to co-determination every four years with their ballot paper. Dissatisfaction with this is growing. The …
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The effect of light – learning from biology for digitalisation
540 million years ago, numerous new species suddenly emerged explosively in the oceans. A spectacular accumulation of biological novelties. Within a few years, new life forms and body shapes, organs and strategies for attack and …
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Possibilism – a cognitive megatrend
Optimist or pessimist? Is the glass half full or half empty? A common philosopher’s joke is to answer it with the question, “What glass?” As crazy as it sounds – the division between optimism and …
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The Robopeut of my trust – artificial intelligence as a therapist
Facebook searched Videos and contributions with artificial intelligenceto find out if one of the users is attempting suicide. Discontinued model human therapist? If someone plans a suicide and Facebook notices this, the family or a …
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Cameroon: Joshua Osih plans better conditions for private investors
by Patricia Schmitz Cameroon’s economy is growing more slowly than sub-Saharan Africa as a whole. One reason for this lies in the still difficult political framework conditions in the country. But this could soon change. …
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Digital Payment: Developing country Germany – guest author contribution
by Patricia Schmitz Africa in miniature: rainforest, mountains, savannah, desert and endless coastlines – Cameroon offers maximum diversity to Africa travellers on an area of 475,442 km². Only very few people come here voluntarily. In …
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Let us be like water!
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Strange birds – great founders
There seems to be a curious consensus among the founders of successful companies: Almost all of them are weird tinkerers who have a “little something on the waffle”. It is unclear whether they were already …
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The Energy Utopia of the General Key – Perpetuum Mobile
Machines that produce energy instead of consuming it – the perpetuum mobile. The researcher who will one day create this device will hold the “master key to everything” in his hand Even before the age …
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Utopia and research – Siamese twins
The utopia of everything Einstein revolutionized the whole of physics with the general and special theory of relativity. Inquiring mind, as he was, he chased another task. He wanted to put forward the theory of …