Machine-esprit
Alain Prochiantz • 2000 • Odile Jacob
- Author
- Alain Prochiantz
- First published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Odile Jacob
- Genres
- Art
- ISBN
- 9782738109163
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Published in 2000 by Odile Jacob, Machine-esprit reflects the intellectual climate of French biological philosophy at the turn of the millennium. Alain Prochiantz, a prominent neurobiologist and professor at the Collège de France, wrote this work to bridge the gap between classical biological determinism and contemporary neuroscientific understandings of the mind. The text serves as a meditation on the evolutionary plasticity of the human brain, challenging the rigid mechanical metaphors that historically dominated the study of cognitive development.
The book is a significant contribution to the 'Sciences' collection at Odile Jacob, a publisher known for curating deep, interdisciplinary dialogues between scientists and the humanities. Prochiantz designed the narrative to dismantle the Cartesian divide between the soul and the physical apparatus of the brain. Within the academic community, the work was received as a rigorous defense of morphological evolution, emphasizing that human consciousness is not a static program but a process shaped by ongoing developmental constraints and environmental interactions.
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