Archives of mind - Puissance & Raison

Cantor’s Body (a reading of Grundlagen)

The mathematician Georg Cantor published “Grundlagen…” in 1883, a major text of which we propose another reading.

27 July 2024

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 was the first to criticize cognitivist and computationalist AI by invoking phenomenology, from Husserl to Heidegger.

15 January 2022

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

In 2001, philosopher Francisco Varela underwent a transplant and meditated on identity. Body, technique and identity: a very contemporary triptych.

28 April 2019

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