Illustration by "natural stupidity"

In order to make people think, it is necessary to get them out of the box of "words". Herbert Marcuse has remarkably highlighted this process in the "one-dimensional man": our society closes off thought by bludgeoning a word and expunging its opposite from the field. From then on, there is no more reflection and thinking about what it means and the antagonisms inherent in a concept.

In our case, "Artificial Intelligence" has been so repeated that it becomes an unquestioned mantra. However, from the very beginning, the founding father did not want this name, which is not in conformity with what is designated, and he spoke of simulation of supposedly cognitive processes (and this itself was already a model).

To make people think, it is always useful to turn the sock of a prison word upside down: what would the opposite result be?

intelligence --> stupidity, artificial --> natural.

As a result, it gives an immediate emphasis that allows one to emancipate thinking and begin to problematize.

The stakes of Our events

Restoring the thickness of things

In the era of a permanent information war aiming to conquer our brain time, we tend to be deafened by the "buzz", blinded by the "spots". Information on the major initiatives - past, present and future - that are transforming our daily lives is no exception to this trend. Those who promote them systematically tend to promise the populations involved a golden age and to obscure what raises questions. The thickness of the subjects is flattened; their depth is emptied; their complexity is reduced.

Organizing "special moments".

We organize events that are regenerated both in their content and in their form, in order to be at the precise frontier between the major transformation approaches (multi-scale, multi-functional, multi-cultural,...) oriented towards operational action AND the principles, constraints, and models underlying these major approaches.

Our promise: to allow everyone to recharge and oxygenate in good company.

The promise of Cognitive Companions is to offer each event a shared space in order to provide itself with an intelligent thinker, an antidote to the marketing and communication that accompanies these big steps.

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Do not hesitate to contact us to participate in the event. A precise date will be determined according to the evolution of the sanitary situation.