Fingerspitzengefühl
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Sep 20, 2026
Cory DoctorowGUEST
That works really well.
Cory DoctorowGUEST
It just fails really badly, right? So when the diagnosis is wrong, the AI is not – it doesn't have – the German word is Fingerspitzengefühl, the fingertip feeling that you get from having all that process knowledge, that inchoate knowledge, that the stuff that you learn by experience and by being in the presence of people and by knowing what you might have missed – And there is a role for doctors and AI to work together.
Cory DoctorowGUEST
So this book that we're talking about today came out about 10 weeks ago.
Cory DoctorowGUEST
And the week it came out, I was told by a radiologist that I'm cancer-free, which
Peter GalisonGUEST
History and philosophy of science or science studies more generally got interested in visualization, I think in part because it was seen to be non-algorithmic, not protocol-driven.
Peter GalisonGUEST
It seemed to be something that involved knowledge, personally communicated knowledge that had kind of personal knowledge, as Polanyi would call it, a kind of what the Germans called Fingerspitzengefühl, you know, a kind of hand-touch knowledge.
Peter GalisonGUEST
I think that it was seen as a tool against the inherited legacy of logical empiricism, which in its more parodic forms was supposed to say you had these covering theories and then these initial conditions, you know, I1, I2, I3, and then conclusion C1, C2, C3.
Peter GalisonGUEST
And Images in that context seemed like a way of getting at the craft aspect of science, the way that science was communicated through personal communication.