João Caraça

Caraca, Joao

Caraca, Joao

Senior Adviser to the Board of Administration, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, France; Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science

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Senior Adviser to the Board of Administration, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, France; Fellow, World Academy of Art & Science

João Caraça is the Senior Adviser to the Board of Administration and was previously the Director of the Delegation in France of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. He has been Director of the Science Department of the Foundation since 1988. He integrated the Steering Committee of the European Forum on Philanthropy and Research. As Full Professor of Science and Technology Policy at the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão of the Universidade de Lisboa he coordinated the M.Sc. Course on Economics and Management of Science, Technology and Innovation. He has been a member of EFFLA (the European Forum of Forward Looking Activities). He was a member of the Governing Board of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology(EIT) from 2008 to 2012. He was also President of the Advisory Board of the Portuguese Business Association for Innovation – COTEC (2003-2011). He was Science Adviser to the President of the Portuguese Republic from 1996 to 2006 and has published over 150 scientific papers. His main interests are in science and technology policy, strategic foresight studies and in the history of knowledge and culture.

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Physics and Cognition
Get Full Text in PDF Abstract Every physical object, celestial body or a living being, is characterized by the emission of physical quantities (or “grandeurs”) that we define as mass, energy, and “form” (physical order, or shape, or arrangement). The emission of form is usually called information. Mass and energy are physically equivalent. And energy is a conservative grandeur. On the other hand, form is perceived by an observer as “meaning”. But meaning is non-conservative. Hence there is...