Orientierungsräume statt Antworten: Feld-Navigation als Methode und Werkzeug für gemeiEntscheidungen

For contested foundational questions — philosophical, ethical, strategic — there is rarely a provable answer, only several posited starting points that cannot refute one another. Instead of declaring one position the winner, this working paper proposes a different response: modelled on celestial navigation, several well-dispersed positions are treated as fixed stars from which a usable, but explicitly local and provisional, orientation is triangulated. The paper develops the core concepts (posited point, angular dispersion, validity boundary, stable field), describes an eight-step procedure, and documents an implementation: the Field Navigator, a dialogical decision-support tool that makes no decisions itself but maps the decision space — including boundary cases and consequences — leaving the decision with the human. Method and tool are read as a synergy model for the human–AI relationship: the AI proposes, the human decides; the paper argues why responsibility cannot be delegated to a system that has nothing at stake, and why the same computing power that fuels argumentative arms races also makes field-based thinking affordable for the first time. A complete worked example ("Will AI replace humans?") is documented in twelve figures, followed by a validation protocol and the application of the method's validity boundaries to the method itself. The paper explicitly positions itself as a procedural contribution; a build guide enabling independent (including AI-assisted) reimplementation of the Field Navigator accompanies this deposit. Full text in German.