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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17th (7:00 pm)
TO SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24th (2:00 pm), 2016
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DIRECTORS :
Thierry GAUDIN,
Dominique LACROIX, Marie-Christine MAUREL, Jean-Charles POMEROL
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ARGUMENT :
On one side, scientists do raise the question: What is the nature of life? On the
other side, the question: What is
information? looks as a relevant one. A living entity, even the
simplest one, consist in a network of interactions, communications,
writings mobilizing an enormous quantity of information. Has the word "memory" the same meaning in
computer science, in biology and in ecology? Is it true, as anticipated
by the philosopher Gilbert Simondon, that information is the agent that
gives shape and maintains itself by structuring matter? Molecular
biology has shown the main steps of gene expression. But one still does
not know what is actually a gene: an information or a molecular
structure? The nanostructures of DNA or RNA appear as 3D architectures
that might be the "engines" of tomorrow nanomachines, bearing multiple
functions in therapy, chemistry and algorithmics (or bioinformatics?).
Finally, epigenetics move out the mechanical views regarding genes
expression. At the cellular level, this stochastic expression leads to
conceive the biological organization relying on a "cellular darwinian
process".
Understanding the origins and evolution of life is one of the major
challenges for the 21st century. How can we conceive biological
evolution and the future of the biosphere and human species, in the new
alliance between natural and artificial beings? This raises ethical
questions. More generally, is technology a social fact or a biological
expression? Is the combined transformation of technology and society by
the information system a new step in evolution?
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FINAL PROGRAM :
Saturday,
September 17th
Afternoon:
WELCOMING
PARTICIPANTS
After
Dinner:
Presentation of the Center, the Colloquium and the Participants
Sunday,
September 18th
Morning:
Thierry
GAUDIN, Dominique LACROIX, Marie-Christine MAUREL & Jean-Charles
POMEROL: Introduction
Pierre-Yves
OUDEYER: How robotic models can help us understand the
dynamics
of infant development
Bernard
DUJON: Decline and contingency, bases of biological evolution
Afternoon:
Joël
STERNHEIMER & Pedro FERRANDIZ: Protéodies, presentation of music
from proteins
What information
are we talking about?
Dialogue between Giuseppe
LONGO (Digital information and the dualism "software / hardware"
vs.
organization and ''meaning'' in physics and biology) and András PÁLDI (Information and
epigenetics)
After
Dinner:
Nature red,
presentation of photos by Dominique
LACROIX
Monday,
September 19th
Morning:
Antonio
LAZCANO: Emergence of life
Gérard BERRY:
Towards an Algorithmic Approach of Life Sciences
Afternoon:
Where is
information?
Dialogue between Ana
SOTO (Toward a theory of organism) and Guillaume
LECOINTRE (Should we rescue the concept of genetic information?)
Contributions of
the ethology
Dialogue between Jean-Claude
BARREY (Life: a simple whirlwind embracing matter, energy and
information, a reinterpretation of the Craig-Lorenz schème) and Thierry GAUDIN (Ethology and
prospective)
Tuesday,
September 20th
Morning:
Alonso RICARDO:
Encoding biological information in polymers; minimalistic models to
understand the origins of life
Alessandra
CARBONE: Conservation and co-evolution: from sequence to
function
François
FAGES: Cells as machines and biochemical programming
Afternoon:
David
PRANGISHVILI: Archaeal viruses: living fossils of the
ancient
virosphere?
Evolution and
selection
Roundtable with
Hugues BERSINI:
Artificial life and understanding of the living
Frédéric
DUCONGÉ: Artificial darwinian evolution of nucleic acids
Marco
SAITTA: From computational physics to the origins of life
After
Dinner:
Jean
FOURTAUX: The evolution in pictures
Wednesday,
September 21th
Morning
Physic, Evolution,
Information
Michel CASSÉ:
Quantic Inflation and plurivers
Kavé
SALAMATIAN: Computer and the Babel temptation
Afternoon:
Guided tour: Mont Saint-Michel
After
Dinner:
Projections of Movies
Thursday,
September 22th
Morning:
Giuseppe
ZACCAI: Molecular forces and motion in the transmission of
information in biology
Jean-Gabriel
GANASCIA: Word and Life Reontologization
What is a species?
Dialogue between Bernadette
BENSAUDE-VINCENT (Redesigning
Life, a Serious and Credible
Research Agenda?) and Philippe
GRANDCOLAS (Species is a class concept, not a "natural
kind"!)
Afternoon:
Ada YONATH:
A prebiotic bonding entity is functioning in all living cells [read by
Giuseppe ZACCAI]
Organisms and
organization
Roundtable with
Mathieu
LIHOREAU: Animal groups as cognitive systems
Dominique
GUILLO: How to account for interspecific sociocultural
phenomena? An evolutionist and interactionist model
Maël
MONTEVIL: Principles for a theory of organisms: Organization and
variation
After
Dinner:
The expeditions Tara, by Christian
SARDET, with film extrats
Friday,
September 23th
Morning:
Mathematics,
physics and biology
Cédric
VILLANI: Probabilities, meaning and evolution
Heinz
WISMANN: Where does the notion of function come from?
Afternoon:
Vincent
FLEURY: Localization of the morphodynamic information
Big Data and
Biodiversity
Dialogue between Régine
VIGNES-LEBBE (Natural language, formal language and description
of the living) and Giuseppe LONGO
(Big Data and Correlations)
Transhumanism
Roundtable with
Jean-Michel
BESNIER: Transhumanism and the future of négation
François
PACHET: A computer musician?
Heinz WISMANN
After
Dinner:
Vincent BONTEMS: Individuation and
vital morphogenetic information
Saturday,
September 24th
Morning:
Philippe
KOURILSKY: A game of survival, chance and complexity
Conclusions
Afternoon:
DEPARTURE
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With
support from
Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS),
Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA),
Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique
(INRIA),
Électricité de France (EDF),
Délégation générale à la langue française et aux langues de France
(DGLFLF),
Centre des monuments nationaux (Administration de l'Abbaye du Mont
Saint-Michel),
Association Reso
and ISTE Éditions
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