The Proof by Googol (1) Numbers and Progress
Progress is correlated to the increase of numbers in the direction of “googol”, an allegorical number “invented” in 1940 by Edward Kasner.
28 January 2023
Explorations...
Is Digital Potentializable? Oulipo-inspired thoughts…
The Oulipo invented the “constraint” to create new literary forms. Can such a method be applied to Digital “forms” and how?
5 November 2022
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
“Digital Divide”: outline of a concept
A “digital divide” has accompanied the rise of digital technology since the 1990s. Outline of a problematical concept.
12 February 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
The black hole Pōwehi and the Mathematics
The image unveiled to the world in 2019 once again validates Einstein’s theory and wonderfully illustrates the awesome power of mathematics.
18 December 2021
A reading of Philippe Descola
How can the work of anthropologist Philippe Descola, “Beyond Nature and Culture”, be applied to our digital world?
13 November 2021
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 “progress” unveiled by Photography (with Henri Van Lier)
Photography, a system of technical essence, unveils by analogy the whole technical “progress” (inspired by the philosopher Henri Van Lier)
17 July 2021
Some political dimensions of blockchains
Blockchain technology promises the disappearance of “cumbersome” trusted third parties. But we don’t get rid of them at little political cost.
29 May 2021