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Luc-Laurent Salvador
LIRDEF, Montpellier, France
salvador@ext.jussieu.fr
Laurent Ferrier
LAMECO, Montpellier, France
Laurent_.ferrier@laposte.net
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How does the individual builts a feeling of having
access to « the real thing »?
How does « objectivity » becomes a psychological
reality ?
Physical reality as a social construction
Perception is multimodal
relation with the milieu, generate each others.” (Piaget, 1936:11) (tr. auct.)
and biological cycles (Winfree, 1980 ; Glass, 1988 ; Strogatz & Stewart, 1993, Strogatz,
2003)
Psychological cycles are no exceptions. See e.g. locking phenomena in… :
Animal “chorus” (cicadas, frogs, etc.)
Fireflies
Group behaviors
Locomotion : schooling, flocking, herding
Construction : termites, ants, etc.
Any kind of mimetic processes… :
Social facilation, contagion, etc. (yawning, sport, violence, suicide, etc.)
Assimilation Imitation Locking
Our hypothesis :