The double look on complex dimension
The Rainbow of Finance After forty years of listening to people about their economic and medical problems, one thing has become clear to me: our financial inequalities stem primarily from significant differences in how we manage our money. Humanity seems roughly divided into two halves: those who spend less than they earn, and those who … Read more
The idea for this article came to me through contact with another exuberant theorist, An M. Rodriguez, passionate about fundamental physics and great unsolved scientific enigmas in general. He sought my opinion on his self-published works, The Emergence of Self (how causal loops, imprinting, and internal piloting give rise to self-awareness) and The Physics of … Read more
The dog loves and consoles. The mirror judges. In the dog’s moving eyes, the world is empathetic, identifies with us, belongs to us instead of attacking us. In the sharp, icy mirror the world looks at us through our own eyes; it became more emancipated. This does not bother people with strong confidence, who already … Read more
Escaping categorization The classic way of thinking about the old versus the young is that the first serves as a model for the second, respectful of the first, Michel Eltchaninoff tells us (in french). It is the exemplary Clint Eastwood in Grand Torino (2008), who plays an embittered and lonely old man but capable of … Read more
Abstract: The re-hierarchization of oneself is not only beneficial for society. It is also a means of renewing the contrast that keeps our personal experiences of pleasure unforgettable. Don’t end up as aged laboratory humans Are we very different from the laboratory rats who tirelessly press their pleasure pedal, forgetting all other considerations? We have … Read more
Abstract: Many of our motivations are wrongly considered natural. I take 3 examples: staying healthy, protecting nature, upholding equal rights. Behind them lie artificial ideals: Eternal Life, the Natural History Museum, Democratic Equality. Confused with principles truly constitutive of human nature, these ideals crush with their weight many aspects of our lives. They flatten our … Read more
Cedric Enjalbert watches teenagers play football, who are soon imitated by a little blond perched at the top of a brick staircase. He thrashes around with his own ball, threatening to tumble under the quiet gaze of his nanny. ” Watch your step ! “, Cédric cannot help but launch, and the nanny to answer: … Read more
At me or at others Grumbling is directed at me. I blame myself for forcing myself to a task. And I will carry it out, no matter how bitter this inner conflict. Complaining is directed at the other. I resent the other or others for the slavery felt in my tasks, without sufficient compensation. I … Read more
The disharmonious couple Who does not know companions so poorly matched that one wonders how they could have had the idea of getting together? Worse, their shaky relationships are punctuated by crises and violence, but the worst verbal and physical fury does not prevent the angry ones from quickly sticking the pieces back. You roll … Read more
Blessed pedaling Hedonism consists in bathing in one’s feeling of pleasure. Recommendations abound about it. How far should you let go? The caricatural form of hedonism, in fact, is symbolized by the rat which presses tirelessly on the pedal of pleasure, perpetually busy stimulating its center of reward. Puritanism, on the other hand, represents self-observation, … Read more