Having turned 20 in 1969 and studying math and philosophy at Berkeley is an enviable opportunity. Daniel Andler experienced California at its best, when Philip K. Dick's fantasies about neurotic androids populated the daydreams of crazy logicians. For this young researcher in mathematics, cybernetics still in its infancy was a tempting track. The debate was already lively between those who claimed to be possible to create a computer system capable of competing with human intelligence and those who did not believe for a second.
Daniel Andler was part of the second group. "At the time, I thought it was very easy to demonstrate the impossibility for a machine to think like a human," he tells us during our meeting. "Over the years, I have had to admit that there is no definitive argument in this direction," he tells us: the train of thoughts, step by step, can happen again. Mathese before being a philosopher late, he will work for a while...
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