M.A. in Bioethics Student at New York University
M.S. in Cognitive and Information Sciences, University of California Merced
Researcher in Neuro-Computational Systems and Bioethics
I'm a researcher interested in the neuro-informational processes that give rise to and are instantiations of human time perception, consciousness, and representation. I have two bachelors (a B.A. in Psychology and a B.A. in Philosophy) from San Francisco State University, where I graduated from in 2020. I recently graduated with a M.S. in Cognitive and Information Sciences from the University of California, Merced, where I was principally advised by Dr. Noelle .
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People are not doing well, to put it lightly. I argue that we cannot restrict ourselves as therapists to changing our patients outlook or habits alone. We must guide them to appropriate and relevant action to improve their material well-being, especially when there are societal and political issues which are directly causing their distress. This is especially important as people increasingly turn to conspiratorial understandings of the world. We must help our patients make sense of the world, to make it coherent again. In a large sense their disconnects are due to a veritable barrage of propaganda which has de-based many people and made them susceptible to absurd or even dangerous modes of thought. This is by no means simple work and it will take practitioner re-training and some uncomfortable work. However, in a time when outlooks for health and economic well-being are only deteriorating, this is a necessary step towards avoiding catastrophe for our patients and our society at large.
The litererature on Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has come to characterize ASD as multifarious in both its etiology and its presentation. Here I illustrate this heterogeneity by examining one genetic and two environmental precipitants of ASD, along bio-molecular and mechanistic lines. Along the way I also examine factors which influence the individual presentation of ASD attributable to those three precipitants, and outline three novel bio-molecular pathways which could help elaborate on the causal mechanisms underlying ASD development and its treatment.
The human brain remains the only system which is known to exhibit and report consciousness. Given how little is known about consciousness outside of its instantiating strata, an account of the nature of conscious report ought to be informed by the function and structure of the system that gives rise to it. In this talk I will outline a general neuro-biologically and mathematically informed framework for a system for conscious report. The system is composed of three interconnected sub-functions, a directed hyper-graph like representational space instantiated by directed hyper-graph neural networks and propagations through them, a change detection mechanism, and a self-modifying evaluation mechanism. I demonstrate how these systems can possibly instantiate a series of functions on representations which together account for the perceived ineffability of consciousness and the separability of representations. Philosophic and experimental implications are also considered.
A high level overview of a model of representation in the mind, which accounts for such varied phenomena as mental rotation of objects, temporal flow of stories, and binding.
An argument against time perception solely as either accumulatory or periodic within the mind. I argue there is a third option which has been sparsely examined and which, in conjunction with the other modes of time-telling, answers some of the confounding questions relating to time perception on the scale of minutes to hours.
A set of conjectures which adequately guide an understanding of political systems over time. Based on the historical example of the rise of Democracy in Athens.
I have presented at many places, and was sometimes even invited to be there.
I've a variety experiences, which are outlined here.
I have translated many smaller projects, and two versions of a book, 170 and 337 pages respectively, on the topic of STEAM education utilizing block code and arduinos, from Korean to English. Examples under the Translation tab.