An open question, not a finished model.

This page is different. Here I sell nothing and claim nothing. I ask a question that has been with me for more than twenty years — and I am looking for people to think about it with me.

It begins in biology: a body consists of millions of different cells, and yet each one knows where it belongs and whom it trusts — the subtle mechanism that immunology was able to map with the tools of Georges Köhler, in whose lab I once started. Cells are remarkably good at being different and still holding together. We humans have become worse at it.

My question always has the same shape, only different clothes: how do you bring together what belongs together — and how do you know what deserves trust and attention? Today it takes two forms.

First form — trust

Our digital networks are built on attention and control, not on trust. 5E — “the Biology of Trust” — is my attempt to describe a different foundation: people own their own data, a few shared values are built in rather than imposed, and communities decide for themselves what holds.

I wrote a manifesto about it — and then came the uncomfortable new question: if artificial intelligence takes over large parts of this trust filter in the future, whom do you trust when the filter itself is a machine? I don’t have a finished answer. I think the question is too important to skip.

Second form — knowledge

The same question, a different field. In a world where AI takes over more and more, something precious is quietly disappearing: human knowledge that grew over generations and was never properly recorded. When machines take over learning — who will still preserve what people really know and can do?

Alexandria is my attempt to preserve this knowledge and to reward the people who carry it, rather than simply extracting it. This too is an invitation, not a finished solution.

The common thread

At heart it is a single idea that hasn’t let go of me since my first search idea more than twenty years ago — it has only grown: from search within a community to the question of how a whole society organises trust and knowledge.

The invitation

None of this is finished, and none of it is doctrine. If these questions move you — from technology, science, philosophy or simply as a human being — let’s talk. The best answers rarely come alone.