Jean-Baptiste Berthelin
Encyclopedia
Jean-Baptiste Berthelin, also known informally as Cochonfucius, is a French
cognitive science
researcher.
He is connected to the Human-Machine Communication Department of the Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur (LIMSI
).
He was one of the team responsible for translating Douglas Hofstadter
's book Metamagical Themas
into French
, the others being Jean-Luc Bonnetain and Lise Rosenbaum. The translation was published by InterEditions, in 1988, under the title Ma Themagie.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
cognitive science
Cognitive science
Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary scientific study of mind and its processes. It examines what cognition is, what it does and how it works. It includes research on how information is processed , represented, and transformed in behaviour, nervous system or machine...
researcher.
He is connected to the Human-Machine Communication Department of the Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur (LIMSI
LIMSI
Founded in 1972, Laboratoire d'informatique pour la mécanique et les sciences de l'ingénieur is a CNRS laboratory associated with the Paris-VI and Paris-Sud-XI Universities. LIMSI is located in Orsay on the campus of the University of Paris-Sud...
).
He was one of the team responsible for translating Douglas Hofstadter
Douglas Hofstadter
Douglas Richard Hofstadter is an American academic whose research focuses on consciousness, analogy-making, artistic creation, literary translation, and discovery in mathematics and physics...
's book Metamagical Themas
Metamagical Themas
Metamagical Themas is a collection of eclectic articles written for Scientific American during the early 1980s by Douglas Hofstadter, and published together as a book in 1985 by Basic Books ....
into French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
, the others being Jean-Luc Bonnetain and Lise Rosenbaum. The translation was published by InterEditions, in 1988, under the title Ma Themagie.