by Jean-Pierre Changeux, Alain Connes · JACOB · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782738100733
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«Matière à pensée» is the essay by Jean-Pierre Changeux and Alain Connes, published by Odile Jacob in paperback (267 pages, in French).
Dialogue between neurobiologist Jean-Pierre Changeux and mathematician Alain Connes: they discuss whether mathematical objects really exist and whether morality can be based on natural principles like mathematics; they also address consciousness, the brain and machines, and the possible application of Darwinian evolution to mathematical thought.
«Matière à pensée» was published in 1989 and takes the form of a dialogue. Jean-Pierre Changeux and Alain Connes were professors at the Collège de France; Alain Connes received the Fields Medal in 1982.
For readers interested in philosophy of science, neuroscience and mathematics.
Jean-Pierre Changeux is a French neuroscientist known for his research in several fields of biology, from the structure and function of proteins, to the early development of the nervous system up to cognitive functions. Although being famous in biological sciences for the MWC model, the identification and purification of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, the theory of epigenesis by synapse selection and the global neuronal workspace theory for conscious processing are also notable scientific achievements. Changeux is known by the non-scientific public for his ideas regarding the connection between mind and physical brain. As put forth in his book, Conversations on Mind, Matter and Mathematics, Changeux strongly supports the view that the nervous system functions in a projective rather than reactive style and that interaction with the environment, rather than being instructive, results in the selection amongst a diversity of preexisting internal representations.
