• Are we Living in a (Quantum) Simulation?

    The question “What is real?” can be traced back to the shadows in Plato’s cave. Two thousand years later, René Descartes lacked knowledge about arguing against an evil deceiver feeding us the illusion of sensation. Descartes’ epistemological concept later led to various theories of what our sensory experiences actually are.

  • GOETHE’S FAUST OF LEADERSHIP

    A Plea for a New Performance Culture – Greta Thunberg and Luisa Neubauer won’t save the world. Yet, the outcry of the youth shows the urgency involved, and science points to the need for action. This is a model that has, indeed, led to some sensitization with respect to the climate crisis. But it also shows that fifty-two years after the first Earth Day, we’re rolling out our own changes far too slowly.

  • THE JOURNALIST WHO KNEW TOO MUCH – A Critique of Medial Reason

    From the heaven of knowledge, a new creature of God has descended into the medial world. And his promise of salvation is quaero ergo tuum sit. Instead of cogito ergo sum—I think, therefore I am—it is now said, I search, therefore you are. So, praise the being. Praise ChatGPT, You.com, Google, and the Artificial Intelligences . . .

  • The Forgotten Potential – Why We Need to Art Right Now

    — Reflecting on Powerful Prescience and Reshaping Posterity‘s Future — Bonn, December 17, 1770: the first artist is born. To be more precise, this is likely the date of his baptism; the actual birthdate remains unknown. With him—Ludwig van Beethoven—art is poised to take on a creative role. Beethoven, already gifted from birth, will ultimately commit himself to art without compromise.

  • CHANGING THE CLIMATE OF CLIMATE CHANGE

    A Plea for a New Performance Culture – Greta Thunberg and Luisa Neubauer won’t save the world. Yet, the outcry of the youth shows the urgency involved, and science points to the need for action. This is a model that has, indeed, led to some sensitization with respect to the climate crisis. But it also shows that fifty-two years after the first Earth Day, we’re rolling out our own changes far too slowly.

  • The Final Narcissistic Injury

    “Subdue the earth!” With this instruction, the Old Testament God […]

  • IT’S NOT ALL A MATTER OF OPTIMIZATION – FORGE YOUR FUTURE WITH AVANT-GARDE

    Positive progress and innovation are driven by free societies that seek change. Change, however, is not a natural law.

  • IN SEARCH OF A HOLISTIC PHILOSOPHY

    The world and how I see it

  • HOMO OBSOLETUS

    Will there be a conscious revolution in a quantum world? Will we become obsolete?

  • PROSPERITY FOR POSTERITY

    Prosperity for future generations can only be achieved if there is a collective effort to strive for “dynamic equilibrium.”