The Contributory Revolution. Pierre Giorgini
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Table of Contents
1 Cover
5 Foreword
6 Preface
8 Introduction I.1. Tricky words relating to the transformation of the living world I.2. Wear, aging, disappearance: the inescapable fate of matter? I.3. Is a positive future accessible? I.4. Is the search for a new alliance with nature driven by the crisis of meaning? I.5. An unavoidable gamble? I.6. A technoscience to be reinvented? I.7. General argument of the work I.8. Style and general structure of the work
9 1 The Major Dualities in How Things are Perceived 1.1. Examples to illustrate the ongoing transition 1.2. Our relationship to power is in question 1.3. Our relationship to language is in question 1.4. The epistemological mutation of the sciences
10 2 Science and Sense, Places and Links 2.1. The salutary crisis of meaning 2.2. The duality of places and links 2.3. The metamorphosis of science as a cultural object 2.4. The crisis of joy
11 3 Contributory Metamorphosis in the Conception of Systems and the Sciences 3.1. Introduction 3.2. The hypothesis of a science claiming to explain everything about visible reality 3.3. From the digital revolution to the quantum revolution 3.4. The convergence of physics, cybernetics and digital sciences 3.5. Subjectivity, incompleteness, unpredictability and indeterminacy in science 3.6. The case of economic sciences 3.7. Critical notes on the hypothesis of a unified science of visible reality 3.8. Understanding what it means to understand 3.9. Science pushed to the limits, the limits of science 3.10. Conclusion
12 4 The Contributory Metamorphosis of Technical Progress 4.1. Introduction 4.2. Confession: the suicidal race to technical intensity 4.3. A short history, from geosphere to technical civilization 4.4. The five stimulants of the “technological bluff” 4.5. The case of robotics and artificial intelligence
13 5 The Salutary Crisis of Joy 5.1. The demolition of places 5.2. The living world, an example to follow 5.3. A saving antidote to the general crisis of meaning 5.4. The path of complexity – ethics of organized complexity 5.5. Third places, co-elaborative spaces that integrate meaning 5.6. Is an endo-contributive economy possible? (Human capital and full human development)1 5.7. Is endo-contributive energy possible?2 5.8. Is endo-contributive agriculture possible?3 5.9. Is endo-contributory technoscience possible?
14 Conclusion: The Limits of the Thesis
15 Postface
16 Appendix: Scientific and Philosophical Comments A.1. The articulation between the concepts of entropy and (dis)order A.2. Negative entropy does not exactly reflect biological organizations A.3. Plato’s dualism: sensible things – and Ideas A.4. For Industrial Revolution, a new basis for legitimacy, security, justice, peace, etc. A.5. Uncertainty and chaos – illustration A.6. About the wave–corpuscle duality
17 References
18 Index
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