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
Tagged: body
Elon Musk, special vassal
Elon Musk acts like a feudal lord, vassal of the technological system. Will we be resistant enough to live in the “territories” conquered by this tough guy?
23 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
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
Miguel Benasayag and the question of the “living”
The philosopher Miguel Benasayag argues, especially against transhumanism, that “the living” would always escape the artificial realm. Did he convince us?
24 November 2018
Francisco Varela, the Heterodox
Autopoiesis, enaction and possibility of an artificial life … The lessons of the philosopher and neurobiologist Francisco Varela.
18 February 2018
Manifesto
Puissance & Raison is a kind of “exploration notebook” about the new digital world questioning what resists, what capitulates. Here some insights…
10 February 2018
About Artificial Consciousness
Can neurosciences and mathematics offer us a mechanizable vision of consciousness? In any case, researchers are actively seeking.
13 October 2017
Turing’s Body
The “body” of Alan Turing, precursor of computer science and artificial intelligence, has been “invited” in his research, even the most abstract
1 July 2017