Ecce Homo Mathematicus
The fulfillment of all human tasks by “intelligent” machines is a myth difficult to demystify, but Homo Mathematicus could help us!
3 October 2020
Explorations
Gilbert Simondon, « philosopher of information »?
Gilbert Simondon, reread 40 years later by digital thinkers, is praised as the “first philosopher of information”. What to think of this “sacrament”?
2 May 2020
Attachment to Simulacra
How close can one become to a digitized artefact? Not to the point, we think, of ever being able to fall “in love” with it.
11 April 2020
PageRank, Parcoursup and other Moral Machines
Alexa, Siri, Uber, Tinder, TripAdvisor, Waze… The multiplication of “Moral Machines”, as the sociologist Dominique Cardon used to say, has only just begun!
28 September 2019
Following Julian Jaynes: comeback of the Bicameral Mind?
While the theories of “consciousness” are progressing, isn’t the human of the 21st century (re)engaged towards a form of “non-consciousness”?
21 August 2019
The promises of quantum computing
Google, IBM, Microsoft … will soon announce “quantum supremacy”. What are the main challenges of this new IT paradigm?
21 July 2019
Artificial Intelligence-Art in its infancy
Is art, “hacked” by artificial intelligence, just a new product of design? Or could “AI-art” one day come across insolence and spirituality?
16 June 2019
Companies: changes in the face of complexity
Immersed in an increasingly complex and technical environment, companies are undergoing radical changes. Several ways are possible…
18 May 2019
The Mirrors of the “I”
In 2001, philosopher Francisco Varela underwent a transplant and meditated on identity. Body, technique and identity: a very contemporary triptych.
28 April 2019
Emergence of a digital natural environment
5G, satellite constellations… The digital network is mutating into a digital environment and, at the same time, is becoming a major geopolitical issue for the 2020s.
9 March 2019