Why We Must Accept the Existence of the Gray Zone Propositions For a TD Chair

The gray zone is that which eludes common knowledge and all forms of expression. It can only be explored personally, outside the certainties that impose themselves on us unintentionally. This exploration is a manifestation of our inner freedom. It leads to the discovery of misidentified realities that lie outside what we thought we knew. The existence of this grey zone also constitutes a space, an in-between, which enables two people to exchange ideas and, through disputatio, to discover and qualify new realities, whether in the scientific, artistic or spiritual field. From a transdisciplinary perspective, this is how we move to another level of reality, beyond the initial contradictions that set one person's view against the other's view. The certainties of one and the other fade in the face of the discovery of realities that escape the clear-cut categories of what is true and what is false in our own opinion. Being reveals itself as both true and false, depending on how we understand it. This approach is based on the principles of phenomenology1 and transdisciplinary analysis2, and it seeks to overcome the causes of conflict and violence between human beings and between human communities.