Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

 

 

ROMANIA, BUCHAREST, IFIASA, UNE SUITE D’ÉPISODES

https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/romania-bucharest-ifiasa-une-suite-d%C3%A9pisodes-7a28c5fd80c5

 

I went to Romania for the Conference of the Observatoire Européen du Plurilinguisme on May 23-24, 2019, and presented the challenge of multilingualism for pay-managing human-resources technicians. I was able to meet Serban V.C. Enache and see the ailing city of Bucharest that had not yet been reconstructed since the 1977 Vrancea earthquake (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Romania)

And that is when and how I discovered IFIASA. What attracted me to them?

 

First of all, their spirituality, in their case their Orthodox Christianity. […]

Second, the emphasis they set on science, technology, and knowledge as constructs of humanity, human beings in their daily life.  […]

 

Third, this last fact or competency opens the door to communication. We are at least 300,000 BCE. The road will be long but this communicational competency will make Homo Sapiens literate in the languages they speak, literate in technology, science, and other knowledge, and literate in spirituality.  […]

 

Any “invention” is nothing but the extension of something that existed before and evolves into what emerges from it.

 

Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU

Olliergues, December 12, 2024

 

FULL 389-page BOOK AT

https://www.academia.edu/126507683/ROMANIA_BUCHAREST_IFIASA_UNE_SUITE_D_%C3%89PISODES  FULL BOOK

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/387318112_ROMANIA_BUCHAREST_IFIASA_UNE_SUITE_D'EPISODES  FULL BOOK

 

Academia.edu Comment

Jacques Coulardeau uploaded a paper

This is a 389-page book collecting only articles published in peer-reviewed journals in Romania. Plus one in Paris for a paper presented at a Bucharest conference in May 2019. My last long distance trip was in July 2019, thank you COVID-19, Satan as Léo Ferré would say.

ROMANIA, BUCHAREST, IFIASA, UNE SUITE D’ÉPISODES

by Jacques Coulardeau

2024 • Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com

389 Pages

Archaeology,  *  Anthropology,  *  Education,  *  Languages and Linguistics,  *  Spirituality

 

Charlemagne’s Benedictine Revolution in Livradois-Forez

https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/charlemagnes-benedictine-revolution-in-livradois-forez-0e4d4c8adab1

ENGLISH

The Carolingian Reform of Charlemagne, a reform that we still live on: the 52 Sundays and some holidays such as Christmas, Easter, the Assumption, and All Saints' Day. It is about understanding the transition from the slave society before the Carolingians to the feudal society which for our Livradois-Forez introduced an unprecedented green revolution, water management in drainage and irrigation without any equivalent except in Babylon, Sri Lanka, India, China, and some other Asian countries. The Benedictines largely contributed to this evolution. […]

FRENCH

[…] Les Bénédictins casadéens introduisirent les moulins à eau qui purent alimenter en énergie mécanique les moulins à grain, à tan, à huile, et les moulins à foulon pour le chanvre et plus tard le papier. Ils purent aussi aider à la mise en place et au fonctionnement des métiers à tresser qui firent du Livradois la patrie du cordage et donc du câble, technologie que l’entreprise Omerin développe et exploite encore aujourd’hui au niveau mondial, l’usine d’Olliergues (aujourd’hui fermée mais entretenue) fonctionnant à l’énergie hydraulique de la Repote, gentille rivière Forézienne, affluent de la Dore.

Ils ont aussi construit nombre d’églises romanes, riches de chapiteaux historiés, de fresques, de vitraux, et de souterraines circulations aquatiques, de statues de la Vierge, représentée debout ou en majesté, portant toujours l’enfant Jésus, que nous pouvons admirer aujourd’hui…

2024 • Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com

 

Pascal Bornet, A Techno-Biased Prophetic Mountebank

https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/pascal-bornet-a-techno-biased-prophetic-mountebank-efd5e9db19a6

ENGLISH

In our modern digital and GenAI world, we need to become literate,  autonomous, and endowed with self-learning sustainability in three domains, autonomous yet articulated together.

SYMBOLERACY is the symbolic value of images, hence imageracy, then, the symbolic value of words, semantic references, and syntactic constructions, in one single word, utterancy, and finally, the symbolic value of sounds, hence sounderacy for music, intonation, and tempo, and LITERACY for the symbolism of language. NUMERACY is numbers and numerical operations, thus counting, percentages, fractions, and mathematical operational numeracy. TECHNERACY was using a stone to chip marks on a durable medium at the beginning, and tools to write down data, long before writing systems made it simpler from stylus/brush inscriptions to the printing press. Then came machines transmitting oral messages like telephone, telegram, morse code, radio, and television, before the machine had its self-managed processing way. Now, we are developing deep human learning and enhanced human intelligence.

WHAT COMES NEXT? Pascal Bornet slams on our desk his three humics, genuine creativity, critical thinking, and social authenticity. We are not dispossessed of our intelligence or creativity, mind or empathy. We are yet challenged to make this GenAI a tool that we must use symbiotically to develop both communication and collaboration to learn and teach, which implies, in tomorrow’s no-work world, moving from traditional routine or submissive work to self-development, self-learning, and self-implementing our enhanced, augmented, and upgraded human intelligence to work with the GenAI tools so many people fear. The target is a new type of not yet specified symbolic literacy that would enable us to differentiate true human contact and exchange from deep-fake (the faker, the funnier) or even not-so-deep-fake controlling manipulation. And the ethical challenge of good and evil has never been so profound and awesomely frightening. What will we do, split as we are between adoption and rejection?

 

FRENCH

Dans notre monde numérique et GenAI moderne, nous devons devenir alphabétisés, autonomes et dotés d'une durabilité d'auto-apprentissage dans trois domaines, Indépendants mais articulés les uns sur les autres.

La SYMBOLORATIE est la valeur symbolique des images, d'où l'imageoratie, puis la valeur symbolique des mots, des références sémantiques et des constructions syntaxiques, en un seul mot, l'énoncioratie, et enfin la valeur symbolique des sons, d'où la sonoratie pour la musique, l'intonation et le tempo, et le LETTRISME ou ALPHABÉTISME pour le symbolisme du langage. La NUMÉRATIE concerne les nombres et les opérations mathématiques, donc l’arithmétique, les pourcentages, les fractions et le calcul opérationnel mathématique. La TECHNORATIE utilisait au début une pierre pour graver des marques sur un support durable, et des outils pour écrire des données, bien avant que les systèmes d'écriture ne simplifient les inscriptions au stylet/pinceau jusqu'à la presse à imprimer. Puis sont arrivées les machines transmettant des messages oraux comme le téléphone, le télégramme, le code morse, la radio et la télévision, avant que la machine n'ait son mode de traitement autogéré. Aujourd’hui, nous développons un apprentissage humain profond et une intelligence humaine améliorée. Pour l’homme ou pour la machine ?

QU’EST-CE QUI VIENT ENSUITE ? Pascal Bornet balance sur notre bureau ses trois humiques, la créativité authentique, la pensée critique et l’authenticité sociale. Nous ne sommes pas dépossédés de notre intelligence ou de notre créativité, de notre esprit ou de notre empathie. Nous sommes encore mis au défi de faire de cette GenAI un outil que nous devons utiliser en symbiose pour développer à la fois la communication et la collaboration pour apprendre et enseigner, ce qui implique, dans le monde sans travail de demain, de passer de la routine traditionnelle ou du travail soumis d’une part, au développement personnel, à l’auto-apprentissage et à l’auto-mise en œuvre de notre intelligence humaine améliorée, augmentée et mise à niveau pour travailler avec les outils GenAI que tant de gens craignent d’autre part. L’objectif est un nouveau type d’alphabétisation symbolique non encore spécifié qui nous permettrait de différencier le véritable contact et l’échange humains, d’un côté, de la manipulation de contrôle deep-fake (Plus c’est faux, plus c’est fou) ou même pas si deep-fake que ça, de l’autre. Et le défi éthique du bien et du mal n’a jamais été aussi profond et terriblement effrayant. Que ferons-nous, partagés comme nous le sommes entre l’adoption et le rejet ?

Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com

Publication Date:  2024

Artificial Intelligence,  *  Literacy,  *  Languages and Linguistics,  *  Symbolism,  *  Numeracy

 

Enlightening Books 4 Both Mind & Senses

https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/enlightening-books-4-both-mind-senses-bdd2cceacd34

 

Christmas is already looming up on the winter horizon. E-books will never run out of print and you can transport your whole library in your shirt's front pocket. You can read them anywhere, in any place where you can plug your own mental roots onto any WIFI cloud. Then you can savor your quenching all your thirsts and hungers for anything that can be represented in an e-book, practically everything you can imagine; Then buy e-books and put them under your Christmas tree and surprise your neighbors, friends, and family with stories about another mental world than their own.

Enlightening Books 4 Both Mind & Senses

by Jacques Coulardeau

2024 • Éditions La Dondaine

Literature,  *  Educational Research,  *  Poetry,  *  Research,  *  Erotica

Symboleracy and its three branches

https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/symboleracy-and-its-3-branches-649bc7f520c8

 

Do not miss these videos that are too long to be on this site. But there is no limit to communication, except, if we do not care enough, that GenAI might be able to absolutely control, edit, and even rewrite what we want to say before we can even open our mouths.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COBuswGRny8&t=28s

and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hPyaMG2qF8

In our modern digital and AI world, we need to become literate, autonomous, and endowed with self-learning sustainability in three domains, autonomous yet articulated together. SYMBOLERACY- ... And at the end 300,000 years later, GenAI is colonizing the universe.

2024, Éditions La Dondaine, Medium, YouTube

History,  *  Literacy,  *  Symbolic Anthropology (Anthropology),  *  Numeracy,  *  Phylogeny

  

 

IN THE PRESENT SMITHY, THE PAST ORES ARE TURNED INTO THE SYMBOLS OF THE FUTURE 

(PowerPoinT, Excerpt)

https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/the-trikirion-of-literacy-987d1c8c82e6 (slightly expanded PPT)

The emergency is already on us with GenAI. No escape, no hiding place. We have to accept it and digest it, either through the mouth, like good food, or with a syringe, like a vaccination. The change that is already here is irreversible. The phylogeny of this GenAI is 300,000 years old – at least – when Homo Sapiens became a long distance fast bipedal runner and started playing with many vowels and many consonants. 

He did not enter the change but he multiplied the possibilities of the Symboleracy he inherited from his ancestors. From this symboleracy, he developed oral literacy, later on, written literacy, along the way, numeracy, and later on again, calculators and techneracy (beyond the use of stones). From the watermills of the Benedictines in Europe, humanity jumped to GenAI, and this is surely exhilarating, and yet with plenty of dangerous possibilities. 

 

 

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THE JEWS IN QUMRAN

https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/the-jews-in-qumran-4273d695ab03

 

Robert Eisenman is an adventurer who goes around and finds treasures in caves. His specialty is the scrolls in old Hebrew he found in the caves around the Dead Sea, the famous Dead Sea Scrolls, and today it is accepted that they must have been written and deposited in these caves in the late half of the first century BCE and the first half, a little bit more probably, of the first century AD. The Teacher of this group seemed to be James, Jesus’s own brother, who was assassinated by the High Priest of the Temple in Jerusalem in the most horrible way you could imagine. He was thrown over the walls and obliged to undress completely, which is unacceptable in Jewish ethics. Then he had to dig his own vertical tomb, was set in it, the head over the ground, buried up to the neck, and then stoned and abandoned to die of thirst.

These documents show a perfect continuity with the Old Testament, which is not surprising, but also with the New Testament and the Gospels, which proves the continuity between Judaism and Christianity.

 For me, the most surprising element is the presence, and very well developed what’s more, of the zealot ideology, a dogmatic vision of what Jews are supposed to be, absolutely dominated by and submissive to the Torah. Total fundamentalism that goes along with the elimination of those who are not perfect Jews, who are not even Jews at all like the Gentiles and the Arabs. This zealot ideology is very present in Islam, but it is also present in Judaism and even if in more subtle words in the modern world in Christianity. The three Abrahamic religions have inherited this from the old Torah tradition and the three religions have integrated it into their general preaching.

 

A phenomenal piece of heritage that gives you cold shivers along your spine. We can really be worried about this, about the future of our world.

2024 • Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com

Dead Sea Scrolls (Religi),  *  Dogmatism (epistemology),  *  Qumran,  *  The Fourth School of Philosophy Zealots