Plasticités Sciences Arts

 

______________PSA Board________________________

 

Founders

 

  • Marc-Williams DEBONO President / Neurobiologist, poet, essayist
  • Anne DAMBRICOURT-MALASSE Vice-President & Treasurer / Paleo-anthropologist, writer
  • Frederic ROSSILLE General Secretary / Composer-researcher
  • Ezio M. INSINNA Secretary Assistant / Psychologist

 

Honour Members

 

 

 

_____________Biographies_______________________

Marc-Williams Debono

Neurobiologist, poet, writer, founder of the group of plasticians (GDP) and of PSA, the author focus his approach around the concept of plasticity, at the same time new key of reading of the various thresholds of reality, ontological crossroads between science and art,  and essential tool of defragmentation of knowledge. From these approaches a deontology or ethics rises which make possible to better detect the inherent principles of coherence in any evolutionary phenomenology, and to adopt an attitude at the same time pragmatic and open   in front of the "plastic code of the life".

Research Activities

Following third cycle scientific studies in neurosciences, orientation towards functional exploration in clinical neurophysiology, particularly applied to the physiopathological study of epilepsy (1978-1981: Inserm U97), then towards fundamental research and applied in neurobiology (1981-1986: U97 & Paris XI University, since 1986 : private sector). Main orientations: - electrophysiological study of the synaptic properties of the cerebellum during ontogenesis in the small mammal (group of neurobiology of the development directed by prof. F. Crepel) - pharmacological research on biological models having close relations with the human neurodegenerative diseases. More than 30 publications in international newspapers & associated congresses (list on request). Focus: Normal and pathological operation of brain, systems of perception and cognition, levels of consciousness, electrogenesis and plasticity of living systems. Member of the French Society of  Neurosciences, the International Organization of Research on brain (Ibro) and the International Centre of transdisciplinary research & studies (Ciret).

 

Transdisciplinary Activities

 

1984-1987: Writer in charge of the cultural affairs to France-Malta association: creation of a heading: "Fruits of the Archipelago".

1994-1998: President-founder of the Groupe des Plasticiens or G.D.P., association of experimental transdisciplinary research aiming at understanding internal dynamics underlying the evolutionary processes. Board: A. Dambricourt-Malassé, paleo-anthropologist, E. Bois, astrophysicist, G.E. Seralini, prof. of molecular biology. Members of honor: P. Bergé: physicist R. Chauvin, zoologist, honorary prof. at the Sorbonne, O. Costa de Beauregard, physicist, G. Durand, anthropologist, P. Karli, neurophysiologist, E. Morin, anthropo-sociologist, B. Nicolescu, physicist, president of the CIRET, R. Thom, mathematician, medal Fields.

2000: Creation of the association Plasticities Sciences Arts (PSA) whose activities and projects are presented on this site. 

 

Selection of Books ©, Papers, Productions or Conferences

«  Le Songe Vestigial »,  Ed. St. Germain des Près, 1979 ©. 
«  Griseries », Ed. St. Germain des Près, 1982 ©.
«  De l’arbre à l’homme », Ethique 2, Editions Universitaires 1991. 
«  La Joute », recueil de poésie préfacé par Edouard Glissant, Ed. du Soleil Natal, 1993 ©.
« Les poètes de Vents & Marées », Interview de Jeanne Monteil & J-Leopold Dumontier Béroulet, Radio-Anglet FM, 1993. 
«  La mémoire autoconstruite », Management, Conjoncture et Société, 439, 1994                      
«  Le cerveau en tant que représentation du monde », Ethique 14, Editions Universitaires, 1994.
« Le défi des neurosciences », Interview de I-A Maréchale et E. Klein, Radio-Aligre FM, mai 1994. 
«  Y-a-t-il une vérité ? », table ronde avec M-W Debono, D. Lecourt, et J.M. Philippe, Epectase, Aligre FM 93.1, Juin 1995.
« L’Ere des Plasticiens »,  Coll. Sciences et Spiritualité, Epistémologie, Ed. Aubin, 1996 ©.

Abstract: " This work take as starting point the attractive observation of the plasticity of the brain to approach the plasticity of the life, the time, the meaning,  the relation to the other, and  finally  the plasticity of the words. Slowly, a new attitude emerges in the surrounding world  linking knowledge to the human experience: the attitude of the plasticians".

 «  Les grandes épreuves de l’esprit: la conscience imaginale », Phréatique 78/79, 1996 
«  Transconscience et temps imaginal » : Institut International de psychanalyse et de psychothérapie C. Baudoin, Bruxelles, February 1996.
«  Science et poésie: la quête du plasticien », Cercle Aliénor, Brasserie Lipp, January 1998.
«  L’histoire fantastique du cerveau-monde », Abstract Neuro & Psy 184, Ed. Valdemars, 1998.
«  Le Moyen-Age Occidental », Phréatique 88, Ed. Arcam, 1999. 
«  Connaissances & Insularités », Revue Internationale d’exégèse Contemporaine Atalia, 4, 1999. 
«  Le processus de la pensée », Société de Médecine libre de Nice, February 1999. 
«  Le cerveau en action », Lycée Janson de Sailly, Paris, March 1999.
« Nouvelle éthique & épistémologie du chercheur » with A. Dambricourt, paléo-anthropologue, Epectase, Aligre FM 93.1, Paris, May 1999. 
« The Plastic Code of Life » in « Transdisciplinarity », proccedings of the first international congress of  transdisciplinarity  (Portugal), Hugin Ed., 1999 ©.
«  SEP et atteintes auto-immunes du cerveau (protéine mog) », conduction d’une émission TV sur Canal Web avec R. Dautigny et D. Pham-Dinh (CNRS), May 2000. 
«  Griseries II », Création Multimédia d’Isabelle Chemin sur  « Griseries », 2000.
« Conscience et dynamique chaotique », Congrès du Ceops, Montpellier, May 2002.
« Conscience de la réalité: Réalité de la conscience », Réseaux n° 94-95-96, Université de Mons Hainault, 2002
« From Perception to Consciousness: An epistemic vision of evolutionary processes», Leonardo Journal Vol. 37, Issue 3, MIT Press, USA, 2004 
« Vers un nouvel espace de pensée «  in « Paul Valéry et la Méditerranée», EdiSud, 2005 ©.
« La représentation cérébrale de l’action », Journées Internationales de Posturologie, Rome, March 2005.
« The concept of plasticity: a new epistemological paradigm », e-revue of philosophy and epistemology Dogma, February 2007.
« The concept of plasticity : a transcultural approach », e-revue of the Agora, Cosmopolis n°1, September 2007.
« Thinking time », in Plastir n°9, December 2007.
« Transdisciplinarity: A New Approach to Metadynamics and Consciousness », in “Transdisciplinarity: Theory & Practice” edited by B. Nicolescu, 
Hampton press Creskill New jersey, 2008©.

 

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Anne Dambricourt Malassé

 

Anne Dambricourt is paleo-anthropologist, in charge of Research at CNRS, attached to the UMR 6569 of CNRS, joining together the Laboratory of Anthropology of the Faculty of Medicine of Aix-Marseilles II, the Laboratory of Prehistory of National Natural history museum whose seat is in the Institut de Human Paleontology of Paris.

 

 Research Activities

In 1978, scientific baccalaureat (Academy of Versailles), received major of her promotion in philosophy, she directs its studies in geology, with the Faculty of Science of Orsay Paris-XI, where she obtains its licence and its control in sciences of the Earth (1982). She continues its university course of 3rd cycle, at the University Paris VI associated with the National Natural History Museum of Natural History. She obtains the diploma of In-depth study after having developed a report on the evolution of the mandible of the anthropoïdes (1983). She leaves major of his promotion.

From 1984 to 1987, she makes a thesis on the mandible by seeking the ontogenetic mechanisms which return account of its morphogenesis at the current species of primates. She then discovers the embryonic origin of the crânio-facial morphogenesis, the origin of the repositioning of the neck to the bottom and of there treat of the face towards the brain, induced by a dynamics of rotation of the embryonic brain. This discovery then makes possible to include/understand the origin of the changes in forms of the base of the cranium and the mandible at the fossil species. The synthesis consolidates the classification of the primates as great families, and the scheduling of craniums, since the mammalian model prognathe at the cranium base very little bent until Homo sapiens. She supports its thesis in December 1987 and obtains the title of Doctor of the National Natural history museum of Natural History inhuman Paleontology. She receives the very honourable mention with the congratulations of the jury. 

In 1989, she is prize winner of the Fyssen Foundation. She enables her to start the comparative histological study of the cephalic embryonic development of various species of primates at the Hubrecht laboratory, in Utrecht, Netherlands.  - Since 1990, she is part-time lecturer for the Diploma of Thorough Studies of the National Natural history museum of Natural History "Geology with Quaternary, Human paleontology, Prehistory ". 

From 1995 to 1996, she is detached as archaeologist consulting at Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MAE) at the Management of the Social Social sciences and Archaeology.  - 1996 to 1998 it is member named by ministerial way of section 20 of the Commission of the specialists in the National Natural history museum of Natural History, who evaluates and selects the candidates at the post of Lecturer of the Natural history museum. She will be during the same time archaeological chief of mission free-Pakistani, in the Kouch Hindu and discovers with his team of the sites in high altitude attesting of the communications at the age of Bronze between the high plateaus of Pamir and the high valleys giving access to the basin of Indus. The importance of the scientific research topic rests on the discovery of the embryonic origins of the cranio-facial evolution of the first primates to the man. The changes formalized by angles are always done in the same geometrical orientation. It releases the obviousness from a deterministic physic, to find in still unknown properties of the ADN. A new theoretical formalism is under study. Ethical implications, ontological and evolutionary are immediate, they relate to the statute of the human genome, human embryogenesis and banks of frozen alive human embryos.

From 1996 to 1999, it is member named by ministerial way with section 20 of the National Council of Universities (CNU) (ethnology, prehistory, anthropology), The CNU is the national authority of evaluation of the candidates for teaching and university research. Since 2001, prepare a HDR in paleoanthropology.

 

Research Activities

 

- Since 1988, named General Secretary of the Fondation Teilhard de Chardin by the professor J. Piveteau.
- In 1993, collaborate to the seminar BENA : conference : "Hominization and Chaos".
- In 1996: invited by the professor Yves Coppens to present results about its discovery at the “Chaire de Préhistoire et de Paléo-anthropologie” from the Collège de France, Conference titled : "Les fondements modernes de la pensée de Pierre Teilhard de Chardin face au chaos déterministe".
- In may 2000, invited by the Pontifical 'Academy for the Culture at the “Jubilé of scientists”, Roma.

 

Selection of Literary Publications 

 

Séminaire de Béna, octobre 1993 " La fécondation mutuelle entre science et théologie " : "L’hominisation et le chaos ". English Version : "Hominization and Chaos ".

" Paysages mentaux des racines évolutives humaines ", in  " Métamorphoses, Anamorphoses ", Phréatique, Langage et Création, n° 74-75, 1995.

 "Les liens évolutifs entre l’histoire de l’univers et la conscience réfléchie à l’aube du XX° siècle " In : Une nouvelle vision du monde et de l’entreprise pour naviguer dans la turbulence, Euroforum, Paris : 1-15, mai 1996.

 " L’évolution de l’homme a-t-elle un sens ? " In : De la crise du sens à la reconquête du sens. Euroforum, Paris : décembre 1996.

 " Chutes et Mémoires " in : " De la base au sommet ", Phréatique, Langage et Création, n° 83, 1997.

 "La légende maudite du vingtième siècle", ouvrage paru aux éditions La Nuée Bleue, préfacé par René Lenoir, ancien ministre, octobre 2000.
 

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Ezio Insinna

 

Research Activities

 

Ph. D. - Education in Electronic Engineering Technology in Switzerland in 1971. Graduated in Clinical Psychology in 1982 in Paris. Doctoral Thesis in History of Philosophy and Scientific Ideas : 'Jungian Synchronicity and Biological Morphogenesis' (Paris, 1989). Research work on mind-body interactions on the basis of C.G. Jung's theory of synchronicity. Several publications concerning the role of microtubules in connection with biological evolution and cognitive processes. Presently working as a part-time psychotherapist in Paris.

 

Scientific Publications

 Insinna, E.M., 1989. Jungian Sychronicity and Biological Morphogenesis. An Application to the Study of Microtubules. Ph.D. Thesis, Paris X University, ISSN : 0294-1767.

 Insinna, E.M., 1992. Synchronicity and Coherent Excitations in Microtubules. Nanobiology, Vol. I, 191-208.

 Hameroff, SR., Dayhoff, JE., Lahoz-Beltra, R., Rasmussen, S., Insinna, EM., Koruga, D., 1993. Nanoneurology and the Cytoskeleton : Quantum Signalling and Protein Conformational Dynamics as Cognitive Substrate. In : Rethinking Neural Networks : Quantum Fields and Biological Data. Ed. Karl Pribram. Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale NJ, pp 317-376.

 Insinna, E.M., 1996. Synchronicity and the Emergence of Non-local Information in Quantum Systems. In Toward a Science of Consciousness (Tucson I), S. R. Hameroff, A. Kaszniak and A. Scott eds. MIT Press/Bradford Books.

 Insinna, EM, 1996. Synchronicity, Information Processing and Mind-Body Interactions. In : Proceedings of the 14th International Congress on Cybernetics. IAC Ed., Namur, Belgium.

 Insinna, E.M., Zaborski, P. and Tuszynski, J. A., 1996. Electrodynamics of Microtubular Motors : The Building Blocks of a New Model. BioSystems, 39/3, 187:226.

 Insinna, E.M., 1997. Biocomputation and nonlinear dynamics in the primitive sensorimotor mechanism of Euglena gracilis. Proceedings of BCEC97. In Biocomputing and Emergent Computation, D. Lundh, B. Olsson and A. Narayanan eds., World Scientific, Singapore, New Jersey.

 Insinna, E.M., 1998. Nonlinear dynamics in the photoreceptor of the unicellular alga Euglena gracilis. An application to the evolutionary aspects of consciousness. In Toward a Science of Consciousness (Tucson II), S. R. Hameroff, A. Kaszniak and A. Scott eds. MIT Press/Bradford Books.

 Insinna E.M, 1998. Evolutionary aspects of ciliated cells electrodynamics : From cilia and flagella to sensory neurons. Advances in Structural Biology. Vol. 5, 9-42; JAI Press Inc.

 

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Frédéric A. Rossille 

Biography available on the web site of the author: http://frederic-rossille.net/bio_e.html

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Michel Cazenave



Michel Cazenave is a writer and producer at France-Culture. He is director of several collections within the domain of sciences, psychoanalyze and philosophy. Among other books, he is author of  the “Dictionnaire de l'Ignorance” (Albin Michel,1998) and director and co-author of the “Encyclopédie des Symboles” (Hachette, collection poche, 1999).

Some Recent Books

- La Science et l'âme du monde: Poiésis, 1983, 4ème éd. Albin Michel, 1996.
- La science et les figures de l'âme, Ed. du Rocher, Collection Transdisciplinarité dirigée par B. Nicolescu, 1997.
- C.G. Jung - Le divin dans l'homme (lettres sur les religions), introduction et direction, Albin Michel, Paris, 1999.
- Aux frontières de la science, ouvrage collectif sous la direction de Michel Cazenave, Hachette / Littératures, 2000.
- L'homme dans ses univers, Albin Michel, sous la direction de Jean Audouze et Michel Cazenave, Paris, 2000.
- Introduction à Wolfgang Pauli et C.G. Jung, correspondance 1932-1958, Albin Michel, Coll. Sciences d'aujourd'hui, sous la direction de C.A. Meier, Paris 2000. 

- Le féminin et le spirituel, Desclée de Brower, 2001.

- Petits chants du néant et de la plénitude de Dieu, Arma Artis, 2002.

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Jean-Jacques Werner

Biography available on the web site of the author:  ________________________________________

Solomon Marcus

Biography available on the web site of the author: 

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Edgar Morin

Biography available on this website among many other 

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