Christophe Menant - Home Page -

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French, born Jan 29 1950.
Engineer
Married, three childen
Address: christophe [dot] menant [at] hotmail [dot] fr

Professionnal Activities:
* 1975 -> 1979: Thomson CSF. ( Telecommunication Development).
* 1979 -> Today : IBM France. ( Engineering, Manufacturing, Qualification, Program Office,
Quality Management, Non-active Employee in 2006).

Interest with Philosophy of Mind:

(A) Evolutionary approach to consciousness
* TSC 2010 (Tucson April 2010). Accepted abstract:
" Evolutionary Advantages of Intersubjectivity and Self-Consciousness through Improvements of Action Programs" http://crmenant.free.fr/TSC2010/AbstractTSC2010.pdf
* ASSC 12- 2008 (Taipei, June 2008)
" Evolution as connecting first-person and third-person perspectives of consciousness"
- Poster: http://crmenant.free.fr/ASSC12/C.Menant-ASSC12-Poster.pdf , http://cogprints.org/6120/
* AAAI 2007 Fall Symposia (Arlington, Nov 2007)
" Proposal for an Approach to Artificial Consciousness Based on Self-Consciousness"
- Poster: http://crmenant.free.fr/AAAI-2007/Artificial-Consciousness.Christophe-Menant.pdf
- Position paper: http://www.aaai.org/Papers/Symposia/Fall/2007/FS-07-01/FS07-01-020.pdf, http://cogprints.org/6013/
* ASSC 10 - (Oxford, June 2006):
" Evolution of Representations and Intersubjectivity as sources of the Self. An Introduction to the Nature of Self-Consciousness".
- Poster: http://crmenant.free.fr/ASSC10/Poster.pdf, http://cogprints.org/4957/
* TSC 2006 (Tucson, April 2006):
" Evolution of Representations. From Basic Life to Self-representation and Self-consciousness".
- Poster: http://crmenant.free.fr/TSC2006/Poster.pdf , http://cogprints.org/4843/
* TSC 2005 (Copenhagen, August 2005):
" Evolution and Mirror Neurons. An Introduction to the Nature of Self-Consciousness".
- Presentation: http://crmenant.free.fr/TSC2005-Presentation/Charts.pdf, http://cogprints.org/4533/
* TSC 2004 (Tucson, April 2004):
" Performances of Self Awareness used to explain the Evolutionary Advantages of Consciousness".
- Poster: http://crmenant.free.fr/Tucson.2004/ , http://cogprints.org/3715/

(B) Systemic approach to information and meaning
CogSys 2010 (Zurich Jan 27&28 2010).
"Grounding of meaning in sensori-motor process "
- Poster: http://crmenant.free.fr/CogSys2010/C.Menant-CogSys.2010-Poster.pdf
* Short paper (Last update jan 2010):
- "Introduction to a Systemic Theory of Meaning" http://crmenant.free.fr/ResUK/MGS.pdf
* First EUCogII Members Conf. Workshop A "Cognition in Action - Grounding of Cognition in Sensorimotor Coordination" (Hamburg, 10-11.10.2009):
"Sensorimotor process with constraint satisfaction. Grounding of meaning"
- Flash talk: http://crmenant.free.fr/EUCogII/C.Menant-EUCogII-Hamburg.10-11.10.2009.pdf
* Information and Computation. (Book chapter, in press. 2010)
"Computation on Information, Meaning and Representations. An Evolutionary Approach"
- Book chapter: http://crmenant.free.fr/2009BookChapter/C.Menant.211009
- All chapters of book: http://www.idt.mdh.se/ECAP-2005/INFOCOMPBOOK/index.htm
* E-CAP 08 (Montpellier, June 2008)
" From meaningful information to representations, enaction and cognition"
- Extended Abstract: http://crmenant.free.fr/ECAP08.Abstract/index.HTM
- Presentation: http://crmenant.free.fr/ECAP08-Presentation/Charts.pdf , http://cogprints.org/6108/
* EuroCogSci 07 (Greece, May 2007)
" Representation, Meaning and Constraint. For a Systemic Approach to the Generation of Representations" - Submitted Abstract http://crmenant.free.fr/EurocogSci07/index.HTM
* Foundations of Information Sciences (Paris, July 2005)
" Information and Meaning in Life, Humans and Robots"
- Presentation: http://crmenant.free.fr/FIS2005-ENSTA-Presentation-/Charts.pdf:
- Position paper: http://www.mdpi.org/fis2005/F.45.paper.pdf , http://cogprints.org/4531/
* Working Document (last update July 2003)
" Essay on a Systemic Theory of Meaning" http://crmenant.free.fr/
* Biosemiotics 3 (Copenhagen, July 2003)
" Evolution of meaningful information generation through the evolution of life"
- Presentation: http://cogprints.org/3714/, http://crmenant.free.fr/Biosemiotics3/INDEX.HTM
* Groupe de Travail AFSCET (Paris, Juin 2003)
" Introduction à une théorie systémique de la signification"
- Presentation: http://www.afscet.asso.fr/SBSMenant.pdf
* Entropy 2003, 5, 193-204
" Information and Meaning" http://www.mdpi.org/entropy/papers/e5020193.pdf, http://cogprints.org/3694/
* Fith European System Science Congress (Heraklion, Oct 2002)
" Introduction to a Systemic Theory of Meaning"
- Presentation: " http://www.afscet.asso.fr/resSystemica/Crete02/Menant.pdf
* Biosemiotics 2 (Tartu, May 2002)
" From Biosemiotics to Semiotics" http://crmenant.free.fr/Tartu/Index.htm , http://cogprints.org/5484/
* Foundations of Information Sciences (Electronic Conference April 2002)
" Information and Meaning" http://crmenant.free.fr/FIScience/Index.htm