The Geometry of the Invisible
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) June 25, 2026 Northon Salomao de Oliveira
A book-length argument that the human body and mind mirror the structure of the cosmos, as symbolized by Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, and that this correspondence is disrupted by digital technologies. The author weaves classical philosophy, neuroscience, law, and artificial intelligence to explore how perception, memory, desire, and meaning are shaped by embodied, finite experience. Digital environments are said to distract from somatic intelligence, contract lived memory, and constrain desire through algorithmic design. The text argues that grief and mortality are conditions for love and meaning, and that phenomenal consciousness cannot be replicated in purely computational systems. Ethical and legal challenges of opaque algorithmic governance are examined through the Eric Loomis case.