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| Society: "Society" refers to a group of individuals living together in a community, sharing common norms, values, and institutions, and often governed by established rules or laws. It encompasses social interactions, relationships, and collective organization within a given geographical or cultural context. See also Community, Culture, State, Norms, Values, Institutions._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Norbert Wiener on Society - Dictionary of Arguments
II 20 Society/Wiener: thesis: Society can only be understood by studying the news and the associated communication possibilities. Messages from human to machine, from machine to human, and... II 21 ...between machines will play an increasingly important role. >Communication, >Information, >Message, >Sense, >Human-machine communication, >Artificial intelligence, >Networks, >Internet. II 27 It is easier to set up a galley or factory that claims human individuals with a small fraction of their value than to create a world in which they can completely abstain. This convenient path to power not only destroys all the ethical development of humans, but also destroys our very few prospects for a longer existence of humans today. >Civilisation, >Culture._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
WienerN I Norbert Wiener Cybernetics, Second Edition: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine Cambridge, MA 1965 WienerN II N. Wiener The Human Use of Human Beings (Cybernetics and Society), Boston 1952 German Edition: Mensch und Menschmaschine Frankfurt/M. 1952 |
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