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Dieu ne joue pas aux dés
Henri Laborit, insatiable curieux, entreprend dans cet ouvrage une passionnante démarche, celle qui captive tous les honnêtes hommes de notre temps : réunir les fils apparemment épars des trois grandes sciences de cette fin du XXe siècle, l'astrophysique, la physique des particules et la biologie. Comment passer du Big Bang au développement cellulaire ? Qu'est-ce qui relie le « vide quantique » et les « trous noirs solaires » ? Quels liens existent entre les électrons et l'angoisse ? Henri Laborit nous invite au fabuleux voyage qui conduit le lecteur de la création du monde à la réaction agressive d'un rat dans une cage de laboratoire, des « petits hommes verts » - qui n'existent pas, nous dit-il - aux charmes et à la beauté du corps humain. Un grand livre humaniste.
- GenresScience
234 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1987
About the author
Henri Laborit
24 books34 followersHenri Laborit was a French surgeon, researcher, writer and philosopher. Animated by a robustly nonconformist spirit, he maintained an independence from academia and never sought to produce the orderly results that science requires of its adherents. His laboratory was self-funded for decades and allowed him to pursue his interdisciplinary interests. He is widely considered to be a pioneer of systems thinking and complexity theory in France.
He won the prestigious Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research in 1957. Laborit later became a research head at Boucicault Hospital in Paris.
His interests included psychotropic drugs, eutonology, and memory. He pioneered the use of dopamine antagonists to reduce shock in injured soldiers. His observation that people treated with these drugs showed reduced interest in their surroundings led to their later use as antipsychotics.
He was also the first researcher to study GHB, in the early 1960s. He hoped that it would be an orally bioavailable precursor to the neurotransmitter GABA, but it proved to have other uses and was later discovered as an endogenous neurotransmitter.
He appeared in the 1980 Alain Resnais film Mon oncle d'Amérique, which is built around the ideas of Laborit and uses the stories of three people to illustrate theories deriving from evolutionary psychology regarding the relationship of self and society. This movie includes short sequences of rat experiments that are used to illustrate the behaviors of some of the characters in different situations (such as inhibition in the action).
The French-born American market researcher Clotaire Rapaille considered Laborit to be an important influence in his work.
The 1991 Italian film Mediterraneo begins with a quote from Laborit which, translated, means "In times like these, escape is the only way to stay alive and keep dreaming."
He won the prestigious Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research in 1957. Laborit later became a research head at Boucicault Hospital in Paris.
His interests included psychotropic drugs, eutonology, and memory. He pioneered the use of dopamine antagonists to reduce shock in injured soldiers. His observation that people treated with these drugs showed reduced interest in their surroundings led to their later use as antipsychotics.
He was also the first researcher to study GHB, in the early 1960s. He hoped that it would be an orally bioavailable precursor to the neurotransmitter GABA, but it proved to have other uses and was later discovered as an endogenous neurotransmitter.
He appeared in the 1980 Alain Resnais film Mon oncle d'Amérique, which is built around the ideas of Laborit and uses the stories of three people to illustrate theories deriving from evolutionary psychology regarding the relationship of self and society. This movie includes short sequences of rat experiments that are used to illustrate the behaviors of some of the characters in different situations (such as inhibition in the action).
The French-born American market researcher Clotaire Rapaille considered Laborit to be an important influence in his work.
The 1991 Italian film Mediterraneo begins with a quote from Laborit which, translated, means "In times like these, escape is the only way to stay alive and keep dreaming."
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August 5, 2024
An interesting connection between biology, physics, astrophysycs and the quantum workd.
December 31, 2021
Dans un ouvrage précédent intitulé "La nouvelle grille", l'auteur évoquait un empilement de "niveaux d'organisation" constituant le corps humain depuis les composants des cellules an allant jusqu'aux sociétés d'humains. L'auteur a cette fois tenté de pousser cette réflexion hors de son domaine de recherche (la biologie) pour envisager l'infiniment petit et l'infiniment grand (domaines de la physique). Sont donc revues et vulgarisées toutes les notions de cette science utiles à son propos. Bien que cet essai date de bientôt 35 ans et que la recherche ait fait des progrès importants depuis, l'ouvrage a selon moi (néophyte) très bien vieilli et n'en reste pas moins très intéressant.
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