relax I am delighted to see you
well it’s a little hypocritical on my part I
am happy to be among you happy
to be welcomed by the arts tedx
and professions I ask you to applaud
the team who were amazed at the evil
for a year as they said everything to
time
nice to be here to talk to you
progress progress progress over
progress 17 fossils and when you
do something in Latin like that already
progress but mostly talked about
sources of inspiration for progress that
oscillates too between necessity or
fascination and finally between
progression sometimes even regression
is the question I’m going to ask you
in this one man show of consciousness so
I can say it is must we
necessarily progress but before
that since I’m doing a little bit
less harm I’m concentric
and narcissistic I’m going to talk a bit about
me then i was born in alger i
grown up in Marseille I’m chauvinist
binational Muslim handicapped brief I
am in the shit
no longer seriously I grew up to
marseille and that’s at the age of 17
as a diagnosis is reached of a
retinopathy pigmentary a
progressive degeneration of the
retina
is it then that I learned
that I was going to lose my sight
gradually I was put in a
institute for young blind people who
was called the rainbow
and I studied long
studies I first studied the
philosophy
then I studied languages I
had a master’s degree in strategy and a master’s degree
of science in financial engineering
I even worked in big
groups and all that is a form of
progress I discovered roussin from
myself and I learned that eventually
each of us has a
phenomenal capacity for resilience
and find schemes for
to make up for a lack of a disability
natural as nature is good
done and that’s a progress as good
I’m still waiting for medical progress
genetics and so this progression
I have lived differently than your
everyday progression that your
relation to progress since there
several types of problems the
social progress technological progress
economic progress and progress
moral and in all dimensions
our company on the historical
economic philosophical we find the
progress already at the time because we
will do a little digression in our
friends the greeks already crepe the
bun yes it’s all pythagoras and
thales finally though nowadays i have
asked the question to my little nephew
Thursday of the pass and thales and said yes
it’s the blood cousin a lot of ink
a good boy i’m crazy there joomla
already at the time there was a big
debate between two thought patterns two
types of paradigm thinking some
very esoteric even religious who
thought that ultimately progress
is only a form of decadence and that
humanity is doomed to fail in
his own disappearance who thought that
the man but is in heaven or
in the water one you in the big
monotheistic religions in paradise
and that he must be doomed to failure
in this form of progress that is
that a research the oise it makes of it
luxury and time saving and another
more modern form
so I pass all authors as
bécotte diderot etc which brought the
different cycles pdi the movement of
lights and who think that humanity
must progress and that by force of
progress to wait for him to his ideal
through this ambivalence and we’re going to
find throughout the evolution
different civilizations
I wanted today
raise a few questions the question
which is about how we inspire the
progress is what progress
resident of our necessity or at that
that he resides rather in our
fascination with our curiosity and will be
always a little swing between the two
years need need to heal
cities to heal but we also see
this ambivalence still exists because
that there are diseases that have disappeared from
our civilized country between
quotation marks but that still exists in
other more complex countries with
developments and systems
productive that are not evolved
as we think we from our point of
view a point of view and there are others
forms of progress that are a lot
more advanced whose news
technologies remember our dear
friend gone
vc the revolution it’s true it’s a
revolution
and that’s what allowed me in my
course to evolve rapidly since
I use other areas of my brain
who at home are how would I say
monopolized by your vision
that’s why I did not use
of support today today you
are like me you are visually impaired
besides, we’re going to be an alibi
revenge the next day and finally
this ambivalence is found in the
scientific progress in progress
medical and in social progress
also we had the leave p hearts
holidays etc.
to have more time but finally
this time we do not devote as these
Greek at the time who in antiquity
spent the time contemplating and this
contemplation
precisely makes us switch from this
need towards this fascination is
the man of all time and fascinated by
the heavens for example we had because
today we interstellar to imagine
thales socrates pythagoras and platon in
train to eat bantamweight pop
corn before interstellar it would be a
syncope
and finally this fascination has
always gave rise to progress
today we saw it with the
two previous presentations a
progress immeasurable
goes faster and faster and deep down
this desire to progress that is
who is really the inspiration always
through this same ambivalence this
opposition between these two streams of
thought some who have a vision
Manichean enough between the good and the
badly the good guys and the bad guys are going
say we are progressing but the technique
perverted loeb
why because for example facebook
it was created this social network for
communicate between universities for
allow researchers to communicate
to notice of release so there was
a kind of virtuous circle
today you see posts I’ve
ate camp flex we take full
in photo the danger is to find yourself
in a virtual reality precisely
but the virtual reality exists of
digital way
we are not machines up
evidence to the contrary
if we take all the novels
of anticipation like those of isaac asimov
or even George Orwell and let them
transposes today well be they are
visionaries be a crystal ball
and finally it brings us back to us
question what is the true
source of progress me I think
personally and that’s my
personal story I’m going to you
tell us that this is the progress we
are sources of our own progress
always in ambivalence
some think that man and god and
that god and loeb
others think the opposite precisely
that always primitively named
time to its destruction
but in my personal case when I
started to lose vision
gradually
I thought I was thin I find myself
have not seen the others they see well
so I had to naturally I do not know
not how I do them but I have
discovered naturally that having between
quotes your ass between two chairs
between the world of seers and the world
visually impaired people allowed me to have a
objective view an outside view
which allowed me to question my
environment and 2 counters
in a different way so
much more strategic ivory
tactical how does
the environment and I had to find
ploys where starts Thursday with a
lamp at school I put in the first
rank and I called to the whole hue
my schooling of these theories
it was henry and finally I did not
could not read anymore I just
use this type of software that has me
discover that auditory memory
and so much infinitesimal
more powerful and much more entrenched
in time as visual memory
and by dint of listening to the lessons of
no longer able to read the chart I got
set to develop a kind of memory
hypermnesic and contrary to
amnesia and from there I got well at
develop space black and I have a
excellent without increase is when
even paradoxical and that’s what
I call a topographic vision I
developed a topographic vision
I become vision because seeing is a
mechanical action that depend on
eyes it’s very mechanical the cortex
primary visual the vision is reversed
we then see that perceiving is
the order of discernment his request for
abstraction sort of astral travel
good I did not smoke cantor at a
ample and this topographical vision
I was able to develop it thanks to a
discipline that counted a lot in
my personal evolution but I’m going
not tell you about it we’re going to look at this and
you will be very surprised I think
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involuntary the martial arts have
guided all my life I first
started with French boxing
then I did judo of Aikido
and I even practiced the sword
Japanese the handling of weapons and well
sure boxing and that was a
gala that had in the month of January against
a former world champion of
heavyweight
so you know how he does
discover with the not come then
inevitably when I box my opponents
and sunrise to the peaceful thugs of
disabled then I repeat asia you
can go there I take poles from
sidewalk goals go on they do not want to
but we will take the will one of yours
Pierre dumont becomes my friend I you
shows the bar experience has more
much more speaking the human being
endowed with meaning we agree I am
not daredevil and for the senses are
interconnected in our brain there
is distributed as a common central
nuclear way and more or less
balanced but sight is a meaning that
consume a lot of energy from
the moment I do not see him anymore
stay not louis cd not true it’s the
consciousness in fact that’s the logic if
stone speaks and he is there I believe
that he is there if he speaks
his voice is here we agree go
here so he’ll stay alphabet and his
head is here so I do not need anymore
to have this precision
his head is here his family jewels
are towards the
thank you stone finally this
experience you can experiment
yourself with your Waldensians with your
sense of touch
when you come home at night
that there is no more light you have
all this instinct to turn on the light
to get your key into the lock
yet you just have to put your
finger I’m sure some of
you the fund and you can find
directly the keyhole is in
do it’s just focus of
internally on what we have left
so we understood each other with disabilities
in a situation of handicap for finally
developed a capacity to be
resident and finally becomes between
released as valid as a valid one is
not normal because normality is
not a standard
all this to finally tell you that
for me progress is inspiration
that we have and that we must have
what is for name of humanity
what is humanity the race
human
it’s like living in drunken society
collegiate way and that’s the
capitalism neo liberalism all that
it’s not necessarily modern notions
at all times there have been needy
like haves
technical progress of progress
technological and medical
to advanced humanity but must
especially allow him to question himself
on his behavior
today we have the emergence of
new movements like the
decay frugal innovation or
still biomimicry
besides I invite you to go see
and read lectures from idrissa gana
great trip the emeritus doctor who
is talking about the rebirth of
humanity through this news
technological era but the rebirth
is going to be looking for the ideal of
humanity and not the extension
your humanity is that the great
question that must be asked is what
we are destined to live so
eternal
google + the gaffes invest
millions of dollars billions of
dollars on eternal life power
replace our organs etc
I would be the first one happy if we
replace the eyes and not worry but
are we dedicated to living
thousand years of balance sheet and that’s where
finally deeply the gift
of ubiquity is to be everywhere at the same
time all the time live all
idle ways
it’s a bit our intrinsic defect
who question us and who tells us
is progress to take advantage of
all is it just take the
time to observe to contemplate nature
who surrounds us and understand this
nature do not try to serve her because
for nothing against a typhoon have against
a drought and that all the
technology can allow us to
adapt but not to fight against
nature
so me to conclude I ‘ll go
invite to ask yourself what is this
that it can allow us to progress
as a human being especially in the
troubled times in which live
right now it turns out I ‘m going
go back to the bled I do not know
so what is that which values
of human beings is it that’s the
to be uniform of all
look like west made some stuff
different
the difference is a virtue is a
strong value it’s not an obstacle
to be handicapped is a wealth a
wealth sometimes I have you struggling to
you blindfolded to feel
finally progress is we who
must aspire and it is not he who must
inspire us we must master the
progress be his master and let’s move on
the slave and it’s time for me to
progress towards the exit and for you
to continue to progress in this
conference thank you very much
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