La Complexité, vertiges et promesses. Histoires de sciences

A la rencontre des penseurs de la complexité

ImageRéda Benkirane, La Complexité, vertiges et promesses. Histoires de sciences. Nouvelle édition, Benguerir, UM6P-Press, 2023. ISBN: 978-9920-41-013-7. 

Qu’il y a-t-il de commun entre la complexité d’un réseau informatique et celle des insectes sociaux ? Quelles sont les possibilités et les limites de l’intelligence artificielle ? Peut-on réinventer la vie, maîtriser les croisements génétiques ? Quelles promesses et dangers faut-il voir dans l’essor de la biologie ? L’incertitude, l’imprévisible, le hasard sont-ils des manifestations de notre ignorance ou bien plutôt une donnée fondamentale ? Dieu joue-t-il aux dés ? L’Univers est-il fini ou infini, mortel ou éternel ? Y aurait-il une « théorie du tout » ? Voici quelques-unes des questions fascinantes que soulèvent ces histoires de sciences. Le livre dresse en outre une galerie de portraits de savants à travers laquelle transparaissent la qualité des témoignages et surtout la diversité des éclairages recueillis. Derrière quelques-uns des plus grands noms des sciences, des hommes se profilent, montrant leurs sensibilités, leurs différences et leurs désaccords, leurs limites et leurs espoirs. C’est finalement sa propre histoire que chacun raconte de la sorte, sous le regard tantôt complice tantôt critique de Réda Benkirane. Cette édition est introduite par une préface de l’auteur qui resitue le livre par rapport à l’état actuel des recherches sur la complexité.  Entretiens avec, par ordre d’apparition : Edgar Morin, Ilya Prigogine, Neil Gershenfeld, Daniel Mange, Jean-Louis Deneubourg, Luc Steels, Christopher Langton, Francisco Varela, Brian Goodwin, Stuart Kauffman, Bernard Derrida, Yves Pomeau, Ivar Ekeland, Gregory Chaitin, John Barrow, Laurent Nottale, Andrei Linde, Michel Serres.

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Sociologue, docteur en philosophie, Réda Benkirane est expert en relations internationales auprès des Nations Unies et d’organisations non gouvernementales à Genève. Il est professeur titulaire affilié à l’Africa Business School de l’Université Mohamed VI Polytechnique, en charge de la chaire Complexités ∞ Humanités. Il enseigne également à l’université de Fribourg en Suisse. Ses recherches empiriques ont porté principalement sur l’urbanité, la complexité, la radicalité et l’islamité.

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Disponibilité en librairie :

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Par internet auprès de Bloom Books: https://www.bloombooks.ma/science-et-tech/p24346-la-complexite-vertiges-et-promesses.html

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Meeting the Thinkers of Complexity

Reda Benkirane, Complexity, vertigoes and promises. Histories of sciences. New Edition, Benguerir, UM6P-Press, 2023 – ISBN: 978-9920-41-013-7

What do the complexity of a computer network and that of social insects have in common? What are the possibilities and limitations of artificial intelligence? Can we reinvent life, master genetic crossovers? What promises and dangers should we see in the development of biology? Are uncertainty, unpredictability, and randomness manifestations of our ignorance or rather fundamental data? Does God play dice? Is the universe finite or infinite, mortal or eternal? Could there be a “theory of everything”?

Here are some of the fascinating questions explored in these histories of science.

The book is also a portrait gallery of scientists, revealing the quality of testimonies and, above all, the diversity of gathered insights. The men behind some of science’s greatest names reveal their sensitivity, their differences and disagreements, their limits, and their hopes. Under Réda Benkirane’s gaze, at times complicit, at others critical, each person in the end tells their own story.

Containing eighteen chapters and an annotated bibliography, this edition is introduced by a new preface that situates the book in relation to the current state of research on complexity. 

Interviews with, in order of appearance: Edgar Morin, Ilya Prigogine, Neil Gershenfeld, Daniel Mange, Jean-Louis Deneubourg, Luc Steels, Christopher Langton, Francisco Varela, Brian Goodwin, Stuart Kauffman, Bernard Derrida, Yves Pomeau, Ivar Ekeland, Gregory Chaitin, John Barrow, Laurent Nottale, Andrei Linde, Michel Serres.

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A sociology researcher with a doctorate in philosophy, Reda Benkirane is an expert in international relations working for  UN agencies and NGOs in Geneva. An affiliate full professor at the Africa Business School of Mohamed VI Polytechnic University, he is in charge of the Chair of Complexities∞Humanities. He also teaches at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. His empirical research covers mainly urbanization, complexity, radicalism, and contemporary issues on Islam.

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لقاء مفكري التعقيد

ما الذي يشترك فيه تعقيد شبكة الحاسوب وتعقيد الحشرات الاجتماعية؟ ما هي إمكانيات وحدود الذكاء الاصطناعي؟ هل يمكننا إعادة اختراع الحياة، والتحكم في التقاطعات الجينية؟ ما الوعود والمخاطر التي يجب أن نراها في ارتفاع علم الأحياء؟ هل الغموض وعدم القدرة على التنبؤ والفرص هي مظاهر لجهلنا أم جوانب أساسية؟ هل الله يلعب بالنرد؟ هل الكون محدود أم لا نهائي، مؤقت أم أبدي؟ هل يمكن أن يكون هناك “نظرية لكل شيء”؟

هذه بعض الأسئلة المثيرة التي طرحتها هذه القصص العلمية. 

يقدم الكتاب أيضًا معرضًا لصور العلماء من خلاله يصبح جودة الشهادات و، قبل كل شيء، تنوع الآراء المجمعة، واضحة. خلف بعض أعظم أسماء العلم، تظهر الأفراد، مكشفة عن حساسياتهم، الاختلافات، الخلافات، الحدود، والآمال. في النهاية، يروي كل منهم قصتهم بهذه الطريقة، تحت نظرة رضا بنكيران ، التي تكون أحيانًا متواطئة وأحيانًا نقدية.

تم تقديم هذه الطبعة بمقدمة من الكاتب تحدد الكتاب فيما يتعلق بالحالة الحالية للبحث عن التعقيد. يتكون الكتاب من مقدمة، وثمانية عشر فصلاً، وقائمة مراجع مذيلة.

مقابلات مع، حسب ترتيب الظهور: إدغار موران، إيليا بريغوجين، نيل جيرشنفيلد، دانيال مانج، جان-لوي دينوبورغ، لوك ستيلز، كريستوفر لانغتون، فرانسيسكو فاريلا، براين جودوين، ستيوارت كوفمان، برنارد ديريدا، إيف بوميو، إيفار إيكيلاند، غريغوري شايتين، جون بارو، لوران نوتال، أندري ليند، ميشيل سيريس.

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سوسيولوجي، حاصل على دكتوراه في الفلسفة، رضا بنكيران خبير في العلاقات الدولية في الأمم المتحدة والمنظمات غير الحكومية في جنيف. هو أستاذ مرتبط بالكامل في كلية الأعمال الأفريقية لجامعة محمد السادس التقنية، وهو مسؤول عن كرسي التعقيد ∞ الإنسانيات. يدرس أيضًا في جامعة فريبورغ في سويسرا. ركزت أبحاثه التجريبية بشكل رئيسي على الحضرية، التعقيد، التطرف، والإسلامية.

Science Week 2023 – Complexity Summit

Programme [ English – Français ]

Communiqué [ English – Français – العربية ]

Keynote Speakers: Edgar Morin, Stephen Wolfram, Luc Steels, Gregory Chaitin, Stuart Kauffman, Ivar Ekeland, Hervé Zwirn, Geoffrey West


UM6P Science Week 2023 – Complexity Summit
Organizers: Fouad Laroui, Saâd Tazi, Reda Benkirane

{ Plenary Sessions / Adam Smith Tercentenary / Complexité et management (Africa Business School) / Complexity and Algorithms (School of Computer Science) / Complex Problems and Collective Solutions (School of Collective Intelligence) / Complexité et simplicité en architecture (School of Architecture, Planning and Design) / Complexités du développement durable (Sustainable Agriculture and Environmental Sciences) / Technical, institutional and political complexity (International Water Research Institute) / Harmonizing complexity: perceptions from natural and social sciences (Materials Science, Energy and Nano-Engineering) / Complexité en management hospitalier (Medical School) }

 

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Plenary Sessions
Séances plénières

Monday 20 February 2023


Drawings: Sophie Lenormand

Fouad Laroui, Welcoming

Hicham El Habti, President of UM6P, Opening Speech (7mn)

 

Fouad Laroui, Why Complexity? (7mn)


Reda Benkirane, Complexity, Golden Age, Dark Age
(10mn)


Saâd Abdesslam Tazi, Complexité, modalités pratiques
(5mn)
Complexity, Practical Modalities

 

A message from Dr. Tuwana KUPE, vice-chancellor of the University of Pretoria (5mn)

 

Edgar Morin, Le défi des complexités en temps de crise (24mn)
The Challenges of Complexities in Times of Crisis

 

Stephen Wolfram, Foundations and Implications of Complexity (54mn)

 

Signature, Fund of Louise Fresco (10mn)

 

David Chavalarias, Toxic Data (1h07mn)
Roundtable with Luc Steels
Moderator: Reda Benkirane

 

Jamal Chaouki, Comment les entreprises gèrent-elles la complexité (34mn)
How does the Mighty Industry deal with the Complex

 

Steen Rasmussen, Engineering Artificial Living Materials (34mn)



 

Hassan Ghaziri, L’ingénieur de demain, entre artefactualisation et complexification (23mn)
Tomorrow’s Engineer, between Artifacts and Complexification


 

Complexité et ingénierie (33mn)
Complexity and Engineering
Roundtable with Jamal Chaouki, Steen Rasmussen and Hassan Ghaziri
Moderator: Saâd Abdeslam Tazi

 

Tuesday 21 February 2023

Luc Steels, Promises and Limitations of Contemporary AI (52mn)

 

 

Hugues Bersini, Algocratie: les algorithmes vont-ils prendre le pouvoir? (46mn)
Algocracy: Will Algorithms Take Over?


 

Hervé Zwirn, Computational Irreducibility and Emergence (34mn)



 

Gregory Chaitin, Complexity in Metamathematics, Friend or Foe? (1h26mn)
Roundtable with Stephen Wolfram, Hervé Zwirn and David Chavalarias

Moderator: Fouad Laroui

 

Wednesday 22 February 2023

Stuart Kauffman, The Inevitable Anthropocene and our Choices Now: Prolegomenon to a Next Axial Age (58mn)


Ivar Ekeland, The Climate Change. Transition, Bifurcation or Catastrophe? (46mn)


 

Johan Bollen, Toxic Networks (51mn)



Wednesday 22 February 2023

Session Africa Business School
Complexity and Management

Jean Staune, Comment les principes de la complexité peuvent guider l’organisation des entreprises (30mn)
How Complexity Principles can Guide Business Organization


 

Amine Belemlih, Le leadership face à la complexité: une perspective par les pratiques (29mn)
Leadership in the Face of Complexity: A Practice Perspective


 

Complexité et management
Complexity and Management
Table ronde avec Jean Staune, Amine Belemlih, Hervé Zwirn et Ivar Ekeland
Modératrice: Yasmina Lamtiri



Lancement de la chaire Complexités ∞ Humanités (41mn)
Launch of the Chair Complexities ∞ Humanities

Table ronde avec Hicham El Habti, Gregory Chaitin, Stuart Kauffman, Hassan Ghaziri et Reda Benkirane
Modératrice: Yasmina Lamtiri

 

Thursday 23 February 2023

Session School of Computer Science
Complexity and Algorithms

Welcoming, Fouad Laroui (3mn)

 

Opening, Rachid Guerraoui (10mn)

 

Moshe Vardi, From Aristotle to the Iphone (27mn)



 

Javier Esparza, The Science of Algorithms (38mn)



 

Pierre Fraignaud, Locality in Distributed Computing (41mn)


 

Sergio Rajsbauma, Geometric Explanation of the Impossibility of Democracy

(28mn)

 

Closing Ahmed Bouajjani and Rachid Guerraoui (6mn)

 

Raphael Liogier and Fréderic Baitinger, L’être humain est-il complexé avant d’être complexe ? (1h03mn)
Complex Individuals or Individuals full of Complexes?
Moderator: Saâd Abdeslam Tazi


 

Francis Heylighen, Emergence and Self-Organization (31mn)


 

Steen Rasmussen, Three Investigations of Human Wealth Evolution over the Last 800 Years (17mn)
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David Napier, Emergence and Self-Organization (24mn)



Emergence and Self-Organization (29mn)
Roundtable with Francis Heylighen, Steen Rasmussen, David Napier

Moderator: Johan Bollen

 

Friday 24 February 2023

Session School of Collective Intelligence
Complex Problems and Collective Solutions

Opening, Sarah Alami (4mn)

 

Geoffrey West, Cycles, Singularities and Tipping Points in the Life History of Cities, Companies and the Planet (1h04mn)


Stuart Kauffman, Commentary on Geoffrey West’s Talk
(16mn)

 

Virginia Chaitin, Proposal for Tackling Biases in Algorithms with Social Impact (18mn)


 

David Napier, Complexity in Health Research: Why Measuring it Matters (16mn)

 

James Winters, Problem Discovery as a Hard Problem Constraint on Technological Evolution (21mn)



 

Katherine Peil Kauffman, Emotional Sentience and Collective Behavior (28mn)

 

Monday 20 February 2023


Colloque Tricentenaire Adam Smith
Adam Smith Tercentenary Colloquium

 

Dany Robert- Dufour, Mandeville et le renversement de la métaphysique (45mn)

 

Pierre-Noel Giraud, Que nous ont légué Adam Smith et les classiques? (45mn)

 

Alain Kirman, La main invisible, Mythe ou réalité ? (34mn)

 

Table Ronde, Fouad Laroui (22mn)

 

Muhammed Ali Yildirim, Specialization of Knowledge and Economic Complexity (44mn)
Division des connaissances et complexité économique

Redouane Taouil, La macro économie est elle en crise? (29mn)

 

Table ronde, Modération Amine Belemlih (12mn)

 

Wednesday 22 February 2023

Atelier Agriculture durable et sciences de l’environnement
Naviguer dans les complexités du développement durable

 

Bruno Gérard, Dimensions de la complexité dans l’agriculture durable en Afrique (44mn)

 

Daniel Nahon, Systèmes complexes naturels, application à l’agriculture (34mn)

Oumar Ba (45mn)

 

Table Ronde, Saad A Tazi (18mn)

 

Raphaël Liogier, Alexandre Maurer, Est-ce que l’intelligence est une question de complexité (1h05)
Table ronde
Modération Saâd A. Tazi

 

Wednesday 22 February 2023

Atelier Ecole d’architecture et de design
School of Architecture, Planning & Design ( SAP+D )

 

Simplicité et complexité en architecture (1h45)
Atelier sous la direction de Hassan Radoine

 

Thursday 23 February 2023
Workshop International Water Research Institute
Technical, institutional and political complexity

Ghani Chehbouni, Complexities in the Water Sector (22 mn)

 

Charafat Afilal, Managing Water Sector from Political and Strategic perspectives (13mn)

 

Dara Entekhabi (46mn)

 

Table Ronde (50mn)

 

Thursday 23 February 2023

Materials Science, Energy and Nano-Engineering
Harmonizing complexity: perceptions from natural and social sciences
 
 
Harmonizing complexity : perceptions from natural and social sciences – moderated by Jones Alami (17mn)

 

Jochen Schneider, Materials design and complexity (45mn)

 

 

Panel discussion (1h27mn)
Moderated by Jones Alami
with the participation of Tarik Sabry, Jochen Schneider, Ali Benmakhlouf and Jamal Belahrach

 

Friday 24 February 2023

Atelier Faculté de médecine
Workshop Medicine Faculty / Medical School

 

Gabriel Malka, La complexité en management hospitalier (1h27mn)

 

Gilles Duhamel, Face à la complexité hospitalière (23mn)

 

 

 

 

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