Artificial
In
/
Decision
Making
and
Coded
Collectivity
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>"
Only
those
questions
that
are
in
principle
undecidable
,
we
can
decide
."
Heinz
von
Foerster
,
Ethics
and
Second
-
Order
Cybernetics
(
1991
) <
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>
Decisions
are
difficult
in
many
ways
:
Individuals
almost
never
know
all
relevant
context
,
and
thus
have
to
decide
based
on
incomplete
knowledge
.
Groups
need
to
decide
together
about
things
that
concern
them
,
and
need
ways
of
negotiating
diverging
interests
.
Artificial
intelligence
is
often
applied
to
provide
expert
analyses
,
in
order
to
find
and
justify
decisions
that
hopefully
seem
reasonable
.
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In
this
course
,
we
will
study
communities
of
creatures
,
and
make
computational
models
of
possible
ways
they
make
decisions
,
and
the
ways
they
organize
their
collective
activities
.
Starting
from
an
existing
network
installation
piece
*
will
allow
us
to
proceed
quickly
to
complex
experiments
.
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These
studies
will
inform
a
larger
group
project
:
Creating
a
complex
installation
of
hypothetical
deep
sea
creatures
,
inspired
by
the
philosophical
/
biological
fiction
"
Vampyroteuthis
Infernalis
"
by
Vilem
Flusser
&
Louis
Bec
.
While
this
course
focuses
on
the
interactions
of
such
creatures
,
the
individual
aspects
are
being
explored
in
the
parallel
Hybrid
Systems
course
.