Ronald Cicurel

Ronald Cicurel is born in Egypt in 1945. His family emigrated to Switzerland after the Suez Canal crisis in 1956.

Mathématicien and philosopher, (PhD in 1974) former lecturer at EPFL in Lausanne, member of the Brazilian commission brésilienne for the advancement of science, author in 2002 of Spyridon's Quest, in 2013 of "L'ordinateur ne digérera pas le cerveau" and in 2015of "The Relativistic Brain" in collaboration with Miguel Nicolelis, in 2016 "Narcoses, Danses avec l'Irréel" and in 2018 de "Mémoires du Caire".

Brain-Centric (2021), How the Mental Space builds our Realities is the result of 20 years of research on the Brain, AI, linguistics and epistemology.

His latest book in French is "Les limites du miracle digital, fragmentations et émergences" (january 2025). This philosophical essay explores the constraints and limits our mental space and language impose on our internal models of reality. It explains why our models are flawed but indispensable and why our human constructions, being digitized, struggle to integrate into an analog universe. The book examines the impacts of information technologies on our societies, democratic systems, environment, and even our brains from a new perspective: the very functioning of our mental space. In this era of rapid advancements in AI and neuroscience, the book synthesizes the results of 15 years of research in these fields.