Scientists Meet Scientists – TUM-IAS Wednesday Coffee Talk by Prof. Patrick Dewilde on "Chaos, Emergence and the Necessity of Ethics“
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On 24 April 2024, Prof. Patrick Dewilde (founding director of TUM-IAS) will talk about “Chaos, Emergence and the Necessity of Ethics”.
Abstract:
Traditional world evolution models are deterministic (and thought to be predictive), but that is not how nature behaves mostly. Even though the world and nature are exceedingly complex, we know meanwhile that it is possible to get some qualitative and even quantitative insights in complex behavior. "Chaos" and "emergence" play a central role in such modeling efforts. The talk attempts to make these notions and their impact more precise, by illustrating them with examples and by making the mechanisms involved plausible. Intelligence in its various forms will be seen to play a major role in generating emergence through control by proxies, but needs, in turn, to be disciplined by a further meta-layer of intelligent quality control, which we call "ethics", again a perhaps controversial notion to be elucidated.
Patrick Dewilde is emeritus professor of Electrical Engineering from TU Delft and emeritus director of TUM-IAS. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Knight of the Dutch Lion and a honorary professor of both the TUM and Wroclaw University of Technology. His research has focused on System Theory and Design Technology (including related Ethics.).
Date: April 24, 2024
Time: 13:00 CEST (until approx. 14:00)
Location: online
Registration: The TUM-IAS Wednesday Coffee talks are held online via Zoom. To register and to receive the Zoom link, please send an email to events@ias.tum.de.
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