{"id":1343,"date":"2026-08-13T05:14:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T05:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/driss-boussaoud.rovexen.com\/?page_id=1343"},"modified":"2026-09-01T05:31:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T05:31:23","slug":"les-dimensions-de-la-presence","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/driss-boussaoud.rovexen.com\/en\/les-dimensions-de-la-presence\/","title":{"rendered":"THE DIMENSIONS OF PRESENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"
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THE DIMENSIONS OF THE BRAIN OF PRESENCE\n\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSocial neuroscience explores the biological and neural mechanisms that underlie our behaviors and social relationships\u2014from empathy to cooperation, from attachment to competition. At the heart of this field, a dominant model has emerged: the Social Brain, defined as the set of brain regions involved in social cognition. This model has profoundly transformed neuroscience by showing that our emotions, decisions, and behaviors depend on others. But it starts from an implicit presupposition: sociality begins with interaction\u2014understanding others, interpreting their intentions, communicating, cooperating.\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe project The Brain of Presence starts from a question that this model leaves open: what if sociality began before the interaction itself?\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBecause even before perceiving, interpreting, or cooperating, the brain is already answering a more fundamental question:\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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1. The biological and evolutionary dimension\n\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWhat if presence were a property of living things?\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSensitivity to the presence of others predates the brain itself. Some bacteria detect the density of their fellow bacteria and collectively modify their behavior in response\u2014this is quorum sensing, described by Bonnie Bassler and her colleagues, which constitutes one of the oldest forms of response to the presence of others. Similar mechanisms are found in insects, fish, birds, and mammals. In humans, James Coan demonstrated with Social Baseline Theory that the brain treats the presence of others as its default operating condition: being alone is energetically costly, being accompanied is economical. The brain did not invent sensitivity to presence\u2014it inherited it and developed it to an unprecedented level of complexity.\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Memory and presence\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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2. The phenomenological dimension\n\n\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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