The Informatization Age (2) Process
The Informatization Age that began in the 1940s welcomed a new technical system in line with the so-called “Process Philosophy”.
5 August 2023
Tagged: philosophy
Philosophy
GPT-3, LaMDA, Wu Dao… The blooming of “monster” AIs
Neuromimetic AIs can now write, draw, compose music… Far from being “conscious”, what do they tell us about being human?
1 October 2022
Hubert L. Dreyfus, Martin Heidegger and the Others
Hubert L. Dreyfus was the first to criticize cognitivist and computationalist AI by invoking phenomenology, from Husserl to Heidegger.
15 January 2022
Welcome in the Metaverse
Here comes the “Metaverse”, the occasion for a posthumous intellectual contact with the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler.
14 August 2021
The Body of René Thom (singularities)
In the footsteps of the mathematician-philosopher René Thom, we set out to meet these “singularities” that seem to escape the digital grip.
20 March 2021
The « Individual » in the light of information theories
Researchers in information science seek to grasp the concept of “individual”. Decryption of their usual methods…
8 August 2020
The Brain is an Edge (not a Center)
The technological regime produces this “computationalist” doxa which considers the brain as a Center for information processing. Really?
11 July 2020
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
Body and Language Games
Mathematical activity is an excellent illustration of the coupling of the body and language games, i.e. their reciprocal modifications when they “dialogue”.
7 March 2020
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