Life as it goes. A conversation with Henri Atlan.
A film by Pascal Goblot

(57 min. / 2012)

Henri Atlan is a free and unclassifiable thinker. He’s one of the pioneers of the theories of complexity and self-organization of the living. A biologist, doctor, philosopher, reader of Spinoza and the Talmud. His works and viewpoints have awarded him a special place in contemporary ideas, at the junction of science, philosophy and ethics.

Life as is goes is a journey through the life and way of thinking of an exceptional man.

Life as it goes is a personal journey though knowledge, ideas, and places, from Paris to Jerusalem, though The Hague, following the steps of Spinoza, anthills and the fabrication of microscopes. The opening of the voyage is based on one question, which may well not be one : What is life ?

Film © 2012 Groupe Galactica / Le Miroir