Leonardo P. G. De Assis is a theoretical
physicist. He currently holds a lecturer position at School
of Humanities and Liberal Studies, San
Francisco State University and also as instructor at Stanford
Pre-Collegiate Studies.
With
seven years at Stanford, he was Lecturer at Department
of Philosophy (2018), a Research Associate (2015-2018), and
Visiting Scholar (2013-2015) at the Center
for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Lecturer at Symbolic
Systems Program since 2018, and instructor at Stanford
Continuing Studies .
He
received his Bachelors degree in mathematics from
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and he has Master and PhD
degrees in Physics from Brazilian Center for Research in Physics, Brazil,
with publication in nonlinear dynamics, quantum field theory, nuclear
physics, atomic physics, cosmology, physics of plasmas and quantum-like
formalism applied to cognition.
He also
has an interest in Quantum Computing, Quantum Information, Neurophysics, and Artificial Consciousness.
He is currently employing
techniques from dynamical systems, and field theory to model the so-called
"Neural Binding Problem". That is an open problem of great interest
to Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science and Philosophy of
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