Data, Evolution and Entropy^[*]

• References

• 1 Denielou, President of the University of Compiegne, at the Symposium organized by CCE and CERD in Brussels, July 1978
• 2 An abstract and mathematical concept if there ever was one Lichnerowicz A, Galperine C, Schutzenberger M. Unpublished MURS Doe. — June 1979
• 3 Claude Bernard — Introduction à la médecine expérimentale 1865
• 4 Prigogene J. Nobel Prize Winner — cf. special lecture for IRIA’s Xth anniversary, 8-9 June. 1978. (IRIA Symposia, published in 1979).
• 5 I am quite aware that the anthropocentric character of this position may be challenged. In projecting on biological evolution, an explanation conforming to its own mechanism of creativity, man would cut down to the size of his own concepts phenomena which are beyond his scope.
• 6 This close relationship is germane to the one between »to have«, »to be able« and »to know«.
• 7 Everything is occurring as if, to the present extent of our knowledge (and of the lack thereof), »there could not be any mind without matter«.
• 8 Jacques Monod Le Hazard. et la Nécessité. Le Seuil 1970
• 9 Or + and —, which has the same meaning.
• 10 Leon Brillouin” — »La Vie, la pensée et la physicochimie«. Cahiers de la Pléiade, No. XIII.
• 11 Which is a somewhat bold extrapolation we will assume to be »the spirit«.
• 12 Bergson — L’Evolution créatrice; quote cited by Lecomte De Nouy in »Le Temps et la vie«, Gallimard 1936
• 13 Sylvere Seurat, President of EUROQUIP, remark in the June 1979 AFREP Symposium.
• 14 Ruffie J. De la Biologie à la Culture. Flammarion 1976
• 15 These action modes have radically different inspiration and effects, but they are reciprocally dependent on each other, every one goading the other to obtain results.
• 16 Aurelio Peocei. President of Club de Rome, in an interview granted to. »Le Monde«; Paris: May 1979