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166Cellular Automata (CA) based simulations are widely used in a great variety of domains, fromstatistical physics to social science. They allow for spectacular displays and numerical predictions. Are they forall that a revolutionary modeling tool, allowing for “direct simulation”, or for the simulation of “the phenomenon itself”? Or are they merely models "of a phenomenological nature rather than of a fundamental one”? How do they compareto other modeling techniques? In order to answer these quest…Read more
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René Thom. Oeuvres Mathématiques Complètes. Volume II (edited book)Société Mathématique de France. 2019.
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138Epigenetic landscape and catastrophe theory: commentary on a correspondenceIn J. M. J.-P. Dalibard Mézard Bouchaud (ed.), Complex systems/ Ecole d'été de physique des Houches, session LXXXV, 3-28 july 2006 ; edited by Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Marc Mézard and Jean Dalibard, Elsevier. pp. 483-489. 2006.
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290Computer Simulations as ExperimentsSynthese 169 (3). 2009.Whereas computer simulations involve no direct physical interaction between the machine they are run on and the physical systems they are used to investigate, they are often used as experiments and yield data about these systems. It is commonly argued that they do so because they are implemented on physical machines. We claim that physicality is not necessary for their representational and predictive capacities and that the explanation of why computer simulations generate desired information abo…Read more
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289Morphogenesis and Design. Thinking through AnalogsIn The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture, Routledge. pp. 218-235. 2016.Digital practices in design, together with computer-assisted manufacturing (CAM), have inspired the reflection of philosophers, theorists, and historians over the last decades. Gilles Deleuze’s The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque (1988) presents one of the first and most successful concepts created to think about these new design and manufacturing practices.1 Deleuze proposed a new concept of the technological object, which was inspired by Bernard Cache’s digital design practices and computer-assi…Read more
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348Morphogenèse, stabilité structurelle et paysage épigénétiqueIn Morphogenèse. L'origine des formes, Belin. pp. 298-308. 2006.
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428Morphogenesis, Structural Stability, and the Epigenetic LandscapeIn P. Bourgine & A. Lesne (eds.), Morphogeneis, Springer. 2011.
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340“Une théorie dynamique de la morphogenèse. Commentaires de Sara Franceschelli et Jean Petitot à “Une théorie dynamique de la morphogenèse””.In René Thom. Oeuvres Mathématiques Complètes. Volume II, Société Mathématique De France. pp. 343-362. 2019.
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182Cette étude montre comment le météorologue Edward Lorenz, dans deux articles de 1963 et 1964, explore les propriétés des systèmes chaotiques par des allers-retours entre une déduction mathématique (basée sur la théorie des systèmes dynamiques) et une étude des solutions numériques du système dit « de Lorenz » dans un régime d’instabilité. This study aims at showing how the metereologist Edward Lorenz, in two papers of 1963 and 1964, explores the properties of chaotic systems thanks to the…Read more
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304"Some remarks on the compatibility between determinism and unpredictability"Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology 110 (1): 61-68. 2012.Determinism and unpredictability are compatible since deterministic flows can produce, if sensitive to initial conditions, unpredictable behaviors. Within this perspective, the notion of scenario to chaos transition offers a new form of predictability for the behavior of sensitive to initial condition systems under the variation of a control parameter. In this paper I first shed light on the genesis of this notion, based on a dynamical systems approach and on considerations of structural stabili…Read more
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302Arguments of stability in the study of morphogenesisAzafea: Revista de Filosofia 19 117-135. 2017.Arguments of stability, intended in a wide sense, including the discussion of the conditions of the onset of instability and of stability changes, play a central role in the main theorizations of morphogenesis in 20th century theoretical biology. The aim of this essay is to shed light on concepts and images mobilized in the construction of arguments of stability in theorizing morphogenesis, since they are pivotal in establishing meaningful relationships between mathematical models and empirical …Read more
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