DiSCourse Seminar with Johannes Hoff
24 January 2023, 13:00 (CET), hybrid
Digital Science Center, Innrain 15, 1st floor, Open Space Area or Big Blue Button
DiSCourse - The Digital Science Seminar Series on
Embodied Cognition and Transindividuation: The Anthropological Challenge of the Digital Transformation
In the last 30 years, the anthropological and neurobiological research on embodied cognition and related discussions in the philosophy of technology have led to two groundbreaking insights: 1. Perceptions, Memories, Meanings and Volitions ain’t in the head. 2. Intelligence is governed by emotions and intuitions that support the phenomenon of trans-individuation, i.e. intelligence is not detachable from a unique perspective that makes our perception of the world meaningful. Against this background, it becomes possible to discern between future-oriented, value-based research, and more backward-orientated scientistic research projects, such as Elon Musk’s highly funded research on brain-machine interfaces.
Johannes Hoff, University of Innsbruck, Department of Systematic Theology and associated researcher at DiSC
Johannes Hoff was appointed Professor of theological Dogmatic at the University of Innsbruck in September 2020. His research focuses on the tradition of Christian mysticism, the anthropological challenge of the Digital Revolution, and the posthumanist discussion of 'technologies of the self', in which Hoff discovers the key to a critical revision of our modern, humanist image of man. Against this background, Hoff's latest FWF-funded research project "Embodiment in Theological Anthropology" explores the role of the ‘Körper-Leib-Problem’ (body - lived-body problem) from a historical, phenomenological, neurobiological and systematic-theological point of view.