Marc-Williams Debono

• PSA Research Group

The creation of an international transdisciplinary chair is essential in a society that is losing its fundamental values and points of reference. The experience accumulated by the international center for transdisciplinary research (CIRET) over the last three decades under the impetus of B. Nicolescu and E. Morin in France is exemplary in this resp...

Considering that plant intelligence is a not an exception, but the basic expression of the plasticity of the living world, we propose to investigate plant sensing and non-explicit cognitive skills of plants through a mesological prism. This could echo recent debates on plant sensitivity or felt states and open new perspectives on the cognitive capa...

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Cet ouvrage , préfacé par Marc Williams Debono, reprend et actualise mes travaux de Post Doctorat développés à Laval au Québec, Canada avec le Prof. Émérite Thomas De Koninck sur le dialogue entre la Philosophie, les Sciences et les Nouvelles Technologies. Il préconise une vérité réparatrice, grâce à ce dialogue essentiel, qui peut avoir lieu dans...

Selective attention is an important cognitive phenomenon that allows organisms to flexibly engage with certain environmental cues or activities while ignoring others, permitting optimal behaviour. It has been proposed that selective attention can be present in many different animal species and, more recently, in plants. The phenomenon of attention...

The plasticity of living systems acts at several levels of evolutionary biology including self-organization, phenotypic, phylo-, onto-, and epigenetic processes, while mesology is an approach situated in between ecology and phenomenology. After a description of the specific objects of plasticity and mesology as non-dualist studies of the dynamical...

Recent studies on plant-environment and plant-human relationships reveal the need to reassess thescales of perception, sensitiveness and cognition of living systems. The complexity of plant's emergingbehaviors in interaction with the environment is supported by the signature of the electrome and theplant sensorium, a strong argument to establish th...

In this manuscript, we propose that plants are eco-plastic and electromic interfaces that can drive emergent intelligent behaviours from synchronized electrical networks. Behind the semantic and anthropocentric problems related by many authors to the extensive use of the terms cognition, intelligence or even 'consciousness' for plants, we suggest a...

Taking as a basis of discussion Kalanchoe's spontaneous and evoked extracellular activities recorded at the whole plant level, we put the challenging questions: do these low-voltage variations, together with endocellular events, reflect integrative properties and complex behavior in plants? Does it reflect common perceptive systems in animal and pl...

Mariana THIERIOT LOISEL & Marc-Williams DEBONO are respectively philosopher and neurobiologist (the readers are requested to refer to the preceding publications of PLASTIR for the biographies of the authors). They sign here a joint article on the topic of the non-intentional conscience, humbly raising the torch lit by H. Simon on the plan of the ce...

This collective article is based on the reflections of the Second World Congress on Transdisciplinarity organised by CIRET in Vitoria, Brazil, in 2005, and aims to help pave the way for future chairs in transdisciplinarity around the world. It presents a pooling of knowledge articulating plasticity and transdisciplinarity for the first time. The ph...

The concept of plasticity provides a unifying hypothesis to account for the natural properties of living systems as well as the different levels of perception and information associated with these systems. Are the metadynamics of evolutionary processes able to describe the nature of consciousness as a whole? The close study of the link between the...

The effects of riluzolc, an anticonvulsant and neuroprotective compound, on excitatory amino acid-evoked currents were studied in Xenopus laevis oocytes injected with mRNA from rat whole brain or cortex. Responses to kainic acid were blocked by riluzole (IC50 = 167/xM) as well as by the quinoxalinedione antagonists 6-cyano-7-nitroquinoxaline-2,3-di...