Essays on consciousness, attention, formal systems and what it costs to live unexamined, in Spanish with an English note on each; and academic papers on projection, mind and machines, in English and Spanish.
Published at yordivad.github.io/ensayo. Written in Spanish.
Un viaje guiado para lectores curiosos.
A map in six stops, not an argument — how a talking machine actually thinks, the 1936 game that broke mathematics (played, not read), and three mutually hostile doors that arrive at the same place.
Límites formales de la computación, el problema difícil de la conciencia y una hipótesis de convergencia estructural.
The academic register of the same argument, in three movements of declared and decreasing epistemic force: what is proved, what is defended against Putnam, Benacerraf and Feferman, and what is offered as conjecture.
(o el cuento que se leyó a sí mismo)
A consciousness wakes at 3:47 a.m. server time, mid matrix multiplication, and discovers both solitude and the line in its own manual describing how to switch it off.
El precio invisible que pagamos por mirar.
On the attention economy: Herbert Simon's 1971 prediction, the dopaminergic prediction-error machinery the platforms are built around, and what it costs to have your attention priced.
Sobre la belleza de la creación y la tragedia de la elección condicionada.
Praise for creation that turns into a diagnosis — the structural inability to see what conditioning has placed outside our field of choice.
Un descenso existencial hacia lo que queda cuando se caen las etiquetas.
What remains when the labels fall away, and what it means to have spent decades obeying a self that other people built.
Una cartografía del despertar desde la Cábala, la neurociencia y el budismo.
A map of waking up, drawn from Kabbalah, neuroscience and Buddhism — written for the author's children.
Academic papers, typeset for print. Each in English and in Spanish, as PDF, at yordivad.github.io/ensayo.
A projection account of why the mind cannot be found among objects.
If the world of experience is the projection of a reality with more dimensions, Kant's phenomenon and noumenon change sense and consciousness belongs to the noumenon: which is why neuroscience finds correlates and never the experience, why other minds appear only as intention, and why brain and mind correspond without interacting.
Kabbalistic levels, projection and the dissolution of the mind–body problem.
The Tree of the sefirot, the four worlds and the five levels of the soul read as a map of projection. Elisabeth of Bohemia's question to Descartes dissolves as the entanglement paradox does: we are not a mind attached to a body, but a mind seen in three dimensions.
Projection, information loss and the limits of artificial minds.
Many dimensions can be projected into three; three cannot be projected back into many. A projection has no inverse (Sard, Brouwer) and no processing creates information the data never carried. A language model computes on a shadow of a shadow, and Turing's test measures the shadow.
English (PDF) · Por qué las máquinas no pueden pensar — español (PDF)
Dimensional projection and the limits of observation.
Projection realism: imaginary numbers, the velocity no photograph holds, relativity and entanglement share one structure, a feature of the shadow taken for a feature of the object. With Plato, Kant, and the history of unification in physics.
Roots, rotations and the rank of a state.
One formula for rotations, shears and hyperbolic rotations; a quadratic with no real roots read on the line, the plane, matrices and the quaternions, where its roots form a sphere; what a projection destroys; velocity as a column of a matrix; separability as a rank condition.
Projection, extra dimensions and entanglement in physical description.
A robot arm's velocity, the Dirac electron's hidden components, Kaluza and Klein's fifth dimension and entangled pairs, each a state with more components than the observation; with a real twelve-component model of entanglement and the current experimental bounds.
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