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Entre hasard et programme : Monod, Jacob et la cybernétique
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Entre hasard et programme : Monod, Jacob et la cybernétique

2020
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Dans Le Hasard et la nécessité , et dans La Logique du vivant , parus tous deux en 1970, Jacques Monod et François Jacob donnèrent une portée emblématique aux notions cybernétiques. Cette revendication s’avérait pourtant très ambiguë, dans le contexte d’une consolidation disciplinaire considérant que la collaboration avec des modélisateurs (mathématiciens ou ingénieurs) était étrangère à la biologie moléculaire. Cet article propose de mieux cerner la place de la cybernétique dans ces ouvrages de 1970, sur le plan théorique (les concepts) mais aussi sur le plan pratique (l’interdisciplinarité). L’analyse suit l’ordre logique et chronologique de la circulation des idées : la première partie précise sommairement les idées biologiques de Norbert Wiener, et montre qu’elles ne sont pas toutes cybernétiques (spécialement la question de l’hérédité). La deuxième partie réinterroge le statut du lexique cybernétique chez Monod et Jacob à la lumière de leur refus de collaborer avec des modélisateurs. Après ces deux cadrages successifs, la troisième partie aborde la place de la cybernétique dans les ouvrages de 1970, en y examinant notamment les notions d’information, de programme, et de téléonomie. De Wiener à Monod et Jacob, il apparaît que l’hérédité, pensée comme réplication d’un programme sujette à du « bruit » mutatif, restait conforme au néodarwinisme et au « dogme central » de la biologie moléculaire en contrôlant tous les mécanismes cybernétiques de l’organisme sans contenir elle-même un tel mécanisme ; ainsi, la biologie de Monod et Jacob, vue d’aujourd’hui, ne fut que très modérément cybernétique, sa continuité avec la pensée biologique de Wiener ne passant pas entièrement par l’idée cybernétique d’inversion de l’entropie au moyen de la rétroaction. In Chance and necessity and The Logic of life (both published in 1970), Jacques Monod and François Jacob attributed a central role to cybernetics. This approach was nevertheless ambiguous, as their vision of molecular biology did not include interdisciplinary collaboration with systems scientists. This paradoxical attitude, neglected by historians, calls for a better assessment of the conceptual and practical continuities and discontinuities between cybernetics and molecular biology. This paper contributes to such an assessment by revisiting the cybernetic themes in these books. It follows the logical and chronological order of the circulation of these ideas by contextualizing these themes within two successive frameworks : the first part of the paper deals with the biological thinking of Norbert Wiener, and shows that it is not entirely cybernetic (especially regarding heredity). Part 2 questions the status of the cybernetic vocabulary used by Monod and Jacob in light of their rejection of interdisciplinary collaboration with systems scientists for developing models of complex networks. The final part examines the place of cybernetics in the two books through the concepts of information, program, and teleonomy. From Wiener to Monod and Jacob, the thinking of heredity as the replication of a genetic program featuring mutational noise remained in the line of neo-Darwinism and the « central dogma » of molecular biology : the program would control feedback mechanisms in the body, without including its own feedback mechanism to adapt and learn from experience. Thus, in retrospect, Monod and Jacob’s biology was moderately cybernetic, and its continuity with Wiener’s biological thinking was not based solely on the cybernetic idea of opposing entropy through feedback mechanisms.
Publisher
Armand Colin
ISBN
9782200933166, 2200933169

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