Federic Gozalo

The Invertebrate Reticular Paradox: Domingo Sánchez, the Neuron Doctrine, and the Optogenetic Resolution of Functional Syncytia

The definitive historical consolidation of the neuron doctrine against the reticularist models championed by Camillo Golgi, Albrecht Bethe, and István Apáthy was fought on the microscopic battleground of the invertebrate nervous system. Stationed at the Biological Research Labora...

The Orbital Enclosure: SpaceX, Planetary Markov Blankets, and the Impasse of Contemporary Astrobioethics

This working paper formalizes the commercial capture of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) as an anthropogenic restructuring of the Earth-system's planetary Markov blanket. Drawing upon the Free Energy Principle (FEP), multiscale active inference, and contemporary astrobioethics, we examine h...