Paul Jorion

Paul Jorion is anthropologist and sociologist, specialized in the cognitive Sciences.

He taught in the universities of Brussels, Cambridge, Paris VIII and the University of California with Irvine. He was also civil servant of the United Nations (FAO), participant in development projects in Africa.

In 1981, whereas he teaches in Cambridge, he develops the P-graph (a particular standard of dual of a Graphe) who will be used in the analysis of the Réseaux and more especially of the genealogies.

In 1984, it publishes in collaboration with Genevieve Delbos, “the transmission of the knowledge”, a sociological and epistemological work devoted to the transmission of the traditional empirical knowledge and whose examples cover offshore fishing, salt production and ostreiculture. The authors highlight the constraints to which are subjected this knowledge because of the requirements of the reproduction of the family unit. The traditional knowledge is of the blow of primarily private nature and relates to the singular rather than on the universal one. The authors offer examples of misunderstandings born between experts and scientists, fault for the latter of including/understanding the clean objectives of the empirical knowledge: “to make with” here and now. The work quickly became a text of reference in science of education.

In 1989, Jorion takes part in work of the laboratory of artificial intelligence of British Telecom, where it develops the software " ANELLA" (Associative Network with Emerging Logical and Learning Abilities) of which l'" intelligence" is guided by a dynamics of Affect - which proves to be also a dynamics of relevance. Its work " Principles of the systems intelligents" (1990) made the bet that it is the Psychanalyse which will offer to the artificial intelligence its authentic framework of reference. In 1993, Jorion founds the group of research called " Theory and private clinic of pathologies of the pensée" who thereafter will be called STP (subject, Théorie and Praxis).

In an article published in 1999, Jorion proposes a new theory of the conscience where it exceeds Freud when it considers that they are not certain our decisions whose motivations are unconscious, but all, denouncing blow the free-referee like an illusion. He explains the conscience as the consequence of the mechanism which enables us simultaneously to apprehend the feelings produced by our five directions, condition to also fill so that a memory can be constituted, i.e. so that a Apprentissage can take place. Drawing the conclusions from the observation made by Benjamin Libet, that the intention is an artefact, appearing with the conscience only one half-second after the act was posed of which it is supposed to have been in the beginning, he advances that the conscience is deluded when it is represented as the cause of the human actions, actually intervening only a posteriori as adventitious consequence of the process of ratification which makes it possible the memory to be built.

He settles in the United States in 1997 when he works in the financial circle. He publishes in 2003, " Investing in has Post-Enron World" , an English work relating to the repercussions for the stockmarkets of the bankruptcy of the Enron company. It publishes then a series of article devoteds to the social and political implications of the American financial system. In 2005, he becomes researcher associated with the Inter-Departmental Program " Human Complex Systems" the University of California to Los Angeles (UCLA).

September 4th, 2007, in a platform of the Le Monde newspaper, he proposes that the economy has a constitution as well as the policy (the economy needs an authentic constitution).

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