30.03.2026: “On Living and Computing”
This panel brings together three leading theorists of computing, biology, and speculative philosophy to weigh in on the limits and possibilities of artificial intelligence and computing more broadly in the context of organismic complexity. Critical of deeply entrenched views (in science, engineering, and now philosophy) that reduce living and thinking systems to computational processes (even when computing is stretched to its mathematical limits), the panelists nevertheless reflect on what computing might be capable of expressing, if not the underlying functions of living systems. From design and somatic practices to theoretical biology and speculative engineering, Giuseppe Longo, Lindsay Lerman, and Adam Nocek draw on a range of discourses to investigate the real, albeit porous and politically negotiated, boundaries between what lives and what computes.
Giuseppe Longo: “Hetero-poietic Organisms vs Imperative Pythagoreanism.”
Bio: Giuseppe Longo is Research Director Emeritus at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) in Paris. He is the author or coauthor of five books and more than one hundred peer-reviewed scientific articles.
Lindsay Lerman, “Bodily Destinies.”
Bio: Lindsay Lerman is an interdisciplinary writer, novelist, and philosopher. She is the author of two novels, I’m From Nowhere (2019) and What Are You (2022), and the translator of François Laruelle’s Phenomenon and Difference: An Essay on Ravaisson’s Ontology (2023).
Adam Nocek, “Organismic Design: AI's Abstract Creatures.”
Bio: Adam Nocek is Associate Professor in the Philosophy of Science and Technology and the Founding Director of The Center for Philosophical Technologies at Arizona State University. He is also the Co-Founding Director of the School of Materialist Research.
Veranstaltet durch: Helle Panke
19:00 Uhr
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