Krankheit - ein facettenreicher Begriff
Ausgabe: 2/2022
68. Jahrgang
Digitale Zwillinge und Verschiebungen im Verhältnis von Gesundheit und Krankheit
In this article, I explore the question of what shifts are emerging in the relationship between health and disease through new AI-based prediction systems. One example of such prediction systems are digital twins for predicting changes in parts of a persons physical body. In a first step, I discuss possible fundamental determinations of the relationship between health and disease. In a second step, I examine from a theological and philosophical perspective what it means when a digital twin simulates and predicts states of illness vicariously. In a concluding third step, I draw a line to the debates about freedom to illness and show how these debates can help us to think about a responsible approach to digital twins.
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