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finissage Talk at the podium on 17.06.2004 Introducing text: Sigrid Puntigam Dear ladies, dear gentlemen! I am pleased to be allowed to welcome you, the guests and the talkers, whom I am going to introduce later, at the event of the finissage "STOFFWECHSESTOFF" (matter of metabolism) within the frame of the 'Viertaktmotorprojektes' (four-rhythm-motor-project) of the EINSTELLUNGSRAUM - exhibition Uwe Ochsler and halftime of the year of the program for a discussion of the subject 'STOFFWECHSEL' (metabolim). "Ihre Zeit hat auch die Rose. Wer wird, wenn sie erblüht, um sie herumspringen und rufen: He ! Dies ist nichts als Pottasche und einige andere Stoffe" ("The rose also has its time. Who will, when it is in bloom, jump around it and call: Hey! This is nothing but calium carbonate, and some other stuff"). The hero of the novel 'der Grüne Heinrich' by Gottfried Keller (the green heinrich) critisizes his professor of natural sciences. With this quotation the scientist of literature Gerhard Kaiser1 his part of the topical controversial debate about freedom of will in brain research, as is the postition of Wolf Singer, Gerhard Roh and other neurobiologists and has kept the news busy for months. In this discussion a prominant dominant, reductional natural scientific thinking is established, which raises itself above human sciences. On one hand there are cultural theoreticists, artists and human scientists with their systems of thinking. They stand for similar positions like the philosopher Herbert Schnädelbach2, who postulated that '..it does not make sense, the mistake the brain for the person....that the person is not an instancy, which sits as homunculus somewhere in the head, but a disposition; the brain is no disposition, but a medium, through which dispostion is realized.' This debate shows clearly that dialog between natural sciences, technic and art is necessary just in the changing phase of these days and only an addition of both thinking systems produces a complet world picture. So for example does Bernhard von Mutius with his book "Die andere Intelligenz" ("The other intelligence") also demands besides other things the dialog between natural sciences, technic and creativ potential of art. 1. Kaiser, Gerhard: "Wär's möglich ? Gehirnzwang ist Glaubenssache." In: FAZ Feuilleton 17.4. 2004, Nr. 90, S.35.(Kaiser, Gerhard: "Would it be possible? Brainforce is matter of believing." In: In: FAZ Feuilleton 17. 4. 2004, Nr. 90, p.35.) 2. Schnädelbach, Herbert: "Drei Gehirne und die Willensfreiheit. Pseudoaufklärung im Gewand der Wissenschaft: Die neu aufgewärmte immergleiche Geschichte vom Determinismus diesmal in neurophilosophischer Variante". FR Feuilleton, 2004 ( Schnädelbach, Herbert: "Brains and the freedom of will. Pseudo education in the guise of science: the newly rehashed ever-the-same story of determinism this time in neuro-phislosophical version." FR Feuilleton 2004) |
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