This project starts from a simple difficulty: understanding is never produced from a completely neutral or complete description. We reason from limited memories, partial observations, inherited representations and locally shared ways of making sense.
Rather than treating these limitations as defects to be eliminated, the project asks whether they may themselves be part of the conditions under which meaning, knowledge and formal structures emerge.
The central motivation is to understand how different partial descriptions can be made to coexist, communicate and stabilize without assuming from the beginning a single privileged representation.
This leads to questions about observers, communities, language, memory, computation and mathematics. It also connects to questions arising in quantum information, where what can be said about a system may depend essentially on the context in which it is described.
→ A more explicit statement of the motivation
Assemblages
Exploratory constructions, diagrams and fragments of thinking.
These are not definitions or finished results: they preserve intermediate
stabilizations that would normally disappear when a theory becomes formal.
Story
A more narrative way of following the construction and its underlying
questions.
Philosophical access
Questions about understanding, representation, community and the
conditions under which meaning can stabilize.
Mathematical access
Attempts to turn these intuitions into mathematical structures,
constructions and stabilizations.
Quantum / logical access
A connection with contextuality, computation and synchronization in
quantum information.
Dynamic Automata — Master's thesis by Louis Triouleyre
A concrete formal development connected with the project.
Discrete tools for understanding quantum information
Habilitation à diriger les recherches on discrete tools for understanding quantum information.
The distinction between these two groups is intentional: the first documents established academic work, while the second documents the construction of the questions from which further formal developments may emerge.
Some parts of the project are more naturally presented as working documents than as web pages. They are deliberately kept alongside the more structured material.
Mechanically made humanly checked and discussed proposition of project summary in 7 pages
A machine-interaction-made compact entry point into the project.
Understanding — first working document
A document collecting an earlier stabilization of the project.
Pragmatiquement-Presque|Anthropomorphismes anthropomorphes
An ongoing working document of reflections and constructions. Current working manuscript — August 2026.
Presque suffisamment mathematisable
latest developments and ideas with intent towards math — Sept 2026.
The last documents may be added or replaced as the current version of the working notes evolves.
The different pages should not be read as a linear theory. They are different attempts to stabilize related questions. An assemblage may suggest a mathematical construction; a mathematical construction may reveal a limitation of the original intuition; a physical or computational example may in turn reopen the question.
The aim is therefore not to choose once and for all between the philosophical, mathematical, computational and physical viewpoints, but to keep translations between them possible.
→ Explore the existing access points
This is an ongoing, open and deliberately revisable project. Some pages are relatively stable; others are exploratory. They should be read with different expectations.
In particular, the assemblages preserve ideas precisely at the stage where their interpretation is not yet fixed. They are part of the project, not an archive of discarded material.
Understanding — Grenoble
An open and evolving research project. [Website organised by machine]