Philippe Guillemant is a purebred scientist of the French institution. A graduate of École Centrale Paris and holder of a Doctorate in Radiation Physics, he has spent his entire career as a research engineer at CNRS. There, he led numerous research projects in computer vision, developing highly complex algorithms for industry (glassmaking, biometrics).
His inventions have earned him several awards, including the prestigious CNRS Crystal. He is a recognized expert in neural networks, deterministic chaos, and information processing.
Despite this hyper-rational profile, Guillemant quickly encountered the limits of materialistic and deterministic physics. His own chaos algorithms demonstrated that beyond a certain degree of complexity, the future of a system became incalculable, requiring an 'external' input of information to our space-time.
Inspired by personal, unsettling experiences of synchronicity and his reflections on the flow of time, he began modeling a new physics where consciousness plays an active role in temporal selection.
He demonstrated (drawing on work related to Sinai's billiards and chaos theory) that classical mechanics loses all predictive capacity in the very short term due to 'bifurcations', proving that the mechanical future of the universe is not written by its initial conditions.
According to Guillemant, the space and time we know are not reality itself, but a 'navigation system' for consciousness. The entire universe resembles a gigantic GPS with countless pre-existing temporal routes (life lines).
There are two causalities acting simultaneously. The first is mechanical and comes from the past: it is classical determinism (cause produces effect). The second causality, more subtle, comes from the FUTURE: it is Retrocausality.
Free will consists in using our consciousness (our deep emotions and intentions, which he associates with the soul) to 'choose' a different future among the potentials of the universe. Once this future is vibrationally selected, it acts backward in time to pave our path.
Guillemant's theory provides one of the most elegant explanations of synchronicity. When we formulate a deep intention and let go (as the rational mind and anxiety block the flexibility of time), we alter our future.
This new future, in order to realize itself, will retroact on the present by modifying infinitely small quantum details (the famous bifurcations of space-time), causing the appearance of 'improbable coincidences' on our path. Synchronicity is thus not a strange coincidence; it is literally the 'signature' of your future drawing you towards it.
The foundational work of his theory of double causality, which has become a bestseller in the field of the physics of consciousness.
A more structured essay detailing his cybernetic model of space-time and explaining why consciousness must exist outside of time.
A work that popularizes in a playful manner (like a road movie) how our intuitions and synchronicities function.