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This paper investigates what we acknowledge to be meaningful and new knowledge. It refers to examples from history, illustrating how human knowledge and knowledge produced by machines were often opposed to each other. Taking into account that knowledge is confirmed by reciprocal processes, it argues that by acknowledging and integrating the results of machine processes into our daily lives, this knowledge also becomes “meaningful” for humans. The acceptance of machine-produced knowledge depends on the cultural network of knowledge confirmation. The strict difference between the two kinds of knowledge, that which is produced by human beings and that which is produced by machines, is vanishing.
Ruth Hagengruber is a professor of philosophy and has headed the Philosophy Department at the University of Paderborn since 2007. There she continued her studies on philosophy and information science and founded the Teaching and Research Area EcoTechGender. Economics, technology and gender are defined as the challenging and decisive factors of the future. She is an honorary member of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (I-ACAP) and a member of the Advisory Board of the Munich Center for Technology in Society at the TU München. In 2015 she received the Wiener-Schmidt-Award from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kybernetik, Informations- und Systemtheorie. Main publications are: Hagengruber, Ruth, Riss, Uwe. (Eds.). 2014. Philosophy, Computing and Information Science. London: Pickering & Chatto; Hagengruber, Ruth, Ess, Charles. (Eds.). 2011. The Computational Turn: Past, Presents, Futures? Münster: MV-Wissenschaft. www.upb.de/hagengruber
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Hagengruber, R. (2017). Creative Algorithms and the Construction of Meaning. In: Pietsch, W., Wernecke, J., Ott, M. (eds) Berechenbarkeit der Welt?. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-12153-2_17
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