My research focuses on the quest for fundamental principles underlying the language faculty and its biological origins.

• I found that simplicity (or complexity drop)
  predicts narrative interest. ➜ read more
• I found a concise model of
  argumentative relevance. ➜ read more
• I found that human language behaviour can be described and explained as an instance of honest signalling. ➜ read more

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Des intelligences TRES artificielles

Odile Jacob : 2019

Le Fil de la vie
la face immatérielle du vivant
(avec C. Gaucherel et P.-H. Gouyon)
Odile Jacob : 2016

La pertinence
et ses origines cognitives
nouvelles théories
Hermes Science : 2008

Why We Talk
the evolutionary origins of language
Oxford University Press: 2007

Les origines de la culture:
les origines du langage
(avec P. Picq et B. Victorri)
Le Pommier : 2006

Aux origines du langage
une histoire naturelle de la parole
Hermes Science : 2000

L’ordinateur génétique
Hermes Science : 1996

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MOOC on Algorithmic Information and AI .

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Odile Jacob (2019)

Online papers
sorted by date and by topic

Interviews in the media
and popular science papers

Talks (past and future)

Topics

Social signals
Evolutionary origins of language
Evolution and information

Simplicity Theory
Cognitive modelling of interest
Cognitive modelling of relevance
Cognitive modelling of meaning
Cognitive modelling of emotional intensity
Cognitive modelling of concept learning

Emergence as complexity drop
Qualia cannot be epiphenomenal

See also:

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visit: simplicitytheory.science