Hermann Schmidt is one of the key figures in the development of cybernetics. At the same time as Norbert Wiener, yet quite independently of him, he founded ‘control engineering’ in Berlin in the early 1940s. After the war, Schmidt developed a technological philosophy that increasingly approached philosophy, and at the end of the 1960s he arrived at an anthropology based on cybernetics. By this time, he had already become an international figurehead of cybernetics. His work was described as ‘epoch-making,’ even for politics. Today, in times of the triumph of super-intelligent technology that will radically change our world and is already doing so, rereading Schmidt's work can contribute to understanding what is happening here and now. The volume Automat und Existenz, edited and annotated by Peter Trawny, brings together the most important texts of this technological thinker for the first time. A new foreword places them in the context of the discussions of the time between well-known philosophers such as Arnold Gehlen and Martin Heidegger.
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Technikphilosophie Kybernetik Regelungstechnik KI Technik Anthropologie Gehirn Neuronale Prozesse Wiener, Norbert Regelkreis Organismus Aufsatzsammlung Automaten Selbstregulierung Erkenntnistheorie