About me

I developed a passion for science and fundamental questions at a very young age. I was naturally drawn toward physics because it speaks about the Universe. During my high school years, my favorite authors were Hubert Rives, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, and Richard Feynman. Gradually realized that science couldn't guarantee us The Truth. Coincidentally, or not, this was also the time when I was separating from God. My questioning of the value of scientific knowledge became clearer during my early academic years.

As an undergraduate student in Physics, at the University of Montreal, I also fell in love with psychology. I was always a faithful person, somehow I had to find a way to reconcile this new passion with my first passion, physics. I was puzzled by the lack of references in physics to the brain, cognitive processes, or to perception. I found it very awkward that physicists could talk about reality with so much conviction without considering the mind. I stated to formulate a new explanation for the form and content of physics by using a language borrowed from psychology, and I shared it with friends and teachers from my undergrad Physics program. To my surprise, I met only resistance. In 1999, my last year at the University of Montreal, I dared to make a presentation at a departmental colloquium entitled "Is science influenced by the brain?", where I exposed my thoughts on the importance that neurosciences and psychology must have in physics. The audience gave me some applause for encouragement and showed a lot of skepticism. At this stage of my life my interest in research was well established, but I realized that I was more interested in improving the state of our knowledge rather than applying a generally accepted scientific theory.

At the end of my undergraduate studies, I hesitated between a Master's in Philosophy (epistemology) or Physics. Maurice Gagnon, Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Sherbrooke, Canada, and specialist in epistemology, had agreed in the fall of 2000 to take me as a graduate student. Despite this opportunity, I opted for a Master's degree in Nuclear Medicine and Radiobiology at the same University. I felt that it was important to expand my experience in science before undertaking a philosophical research project. This practice of physics, which I have much appreciated, only intensified my questioning on the foundations of scientific knowledge, as it allowed me to see more closely into the scientific method. In 2003, I embarked on a full time Philosophy program at the University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada. For the next two years, I took undergraduate- and graduate-level courses focusing on logics, epistemology, and philosophy of language.

Worldly problems brought me back to the practice of science as an Engineer at a laser manufacturer in California, USA. At the end of 2008, I came back to Montreal where I continued to practice engineering at McGill University.

In 2011 I went independent and immersed myself in the development of commons-based peer production models. I co-founded Sensorica.