Taxacom: Goethe in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.

[John Grehan]

For anyone interested in Goethe and various other issues, I have an
electronic copy of the following book.

Ebach, M. 2023. Goethe in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.  Springer
Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 130 pp.

Contents
1 Goethe in the Age of AI
2 AI and the Modern Hubris
3 Goethe and the Birth of the Modern Hubris
4 Anschauung and the Urphenomenon and the Path to Discovery
5 How to Remedy Direct Observation
6 Getting Rid of Bad Metaphysics
7 Goethe?s Italian Journey and the Transformation of Self
Epilogue

Forward
The idea of (parts of) this book came to me during a walk along the North
Downs Way in East Surrey in the summer of 2004. I had decided
to give up academia since postdoctoral positions were scarce as no one
wanted a palaeobiogeographer fascinated with modern biotic distributions.
Not wanting to give up research entirely, I decided to fund it by working
part-time at a local county library. The system worked well, that is, until
a dear friend and colleague came to visit later that year. In 2005, I
found myself back into the meat mincer that is modern academia, having to
fnd a new postdoctoral position every 12?18 months, while not letting
the number of publications slip. All academics know this life and some love
and others fnd it rather tiring. I was one of the latter and bid farewell
to academia for the second time in 2020.

A lot happened in those 15 years. Artificial intelligence blossomed and so
too did big data. Every time I came across big data projects within my
own field of research, I wondered what Goethe would have made of it all.
Herein lies the genesis of the second part of this book, the Modern Hubris.
I tried to get funding to investigate the Modern Hubris, but no luck. There
was no interest in understanding the technology that is slowly
replacing human experience and our connection with Nature. I started
reading Goethe again and remembered the walk along the North Downs
Way that long summer afternoon. Finally, after 18 years, the book is
fnished? or is it? There is much more to discover about Goethe and his
scientific life, as well as the why?s and how?s of his method, which he
applied across a multitude of fields, including geology, comparative
biology, geography, colour theory and much more

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