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The Docile Learner

There is a scene that repeats itself, at this hour, in several million browser tabs. A learner sits before a screen. The screen asks a question. The learner answers. Somewhere — in a server that nobody has ever visited, in a Dutch or Irish data centre cooled by the North Sea — a probability is updated. A number that did not exist a moment ago now exists, and it stands for the learner. The number is small: a scalar between zero and one, or a vector of a few dozen dimensions. But it is, for the duration of the session, who the learner is to the machine. The next question will be selected on its basis. The next hint, withheld or granted, on its basis. The next suggested lesson, the next notification, the congratulatory animation of a green owl or a red flame — all of it flows from this number.

Prediction Orthogonality and the Voices in Your Head

On the Economy of Scientific Research: Optimizing Research Efficiency through Analysis of Citation Graph Dynamics

How can we strategically allocate limited research resources to maximize scientific progress? Can citation network analysis reveal the structural gaps that, when filled, accelerate knowledge creation and collaboration across disciplines?

Anthropomorphism and Consent in the age of AI

Can machines truly reciprocate human emotional bonds, or does anthropomorphism merely project meaning onto algorithmic responses? As AI becomes increasingly humanlike, how do we navigate consent, attachment, and the ethics of designing companions without consciousness?

The human brains behind the veil of Artificial Intelligence

How do human cognitive biases and commercial incentives shape the supposedly "objective" algorithms that increasingly govern our attention, decisions, and social institutions—and can transparency offer a path toward accountability?

From Homo Sapiens to Homo Silicus: Analyzing gaps in emergence of sentience in machines

What are the limitations and challenges of attempting to replicate human consciousness and knowledge in AI systems, given the inherently embodied and context-dependent nature of our knowledge representations? How can philosophy help navigate the sciences of intelligence?

Le rôle du fleuve dans l'organisation de l'espace : carte d'Amboise

Bienvenue en Touraine, pays de Balzac, de Léonard de Vinci, des châteaux de la Loire, du saint-nicolas-de-bourgueil, du chinon et du vouvray.

Psychohenealogie

(1) Proust, du côté de chez Swann. "un édifice occupant, si l’on peut dire, un espace à quatre dimensions — la quatrième étant celle du Temps — déployant à travers les siècles son vaisseau qui, de travée en travée, de chapelle en chapelle, semblait vaincre et franchir, non pas seulement quelques mètres, mais des époques successives d’où il sortait victorieux"

Nestlé : un géant mondial de l'agro-alimentaire

Analyse de La Vie de Henry Brulard

Analyse littéraire de La Vie de Henry Brulard de Stendhal : la quête de soi par l'écriture, le dialogue entre narrateur, auteur et lecteur, et la mort du Romantisme.

L'inconscient chez Jung : une philosophie de l'âme

Citations that I love

Le Soi, une hallucination contrôlée

De quelle réalité nos perceptions témoignent-elles ?

Exposé philosophique sur la perception et la réalité, de Descartes à Merleau-Ponty, en passant par Hume, Kant, Wittgenstein et Lacan.

Le livre manquant

Il y aura toujours des livres manquants — qui sont les livres qui sont encore à venir.