Stefano Valente, MD
ORCID: 0009-0005-0152-2577
23 June 2026
While the European Union invests heavily in the Silver…
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Stefano Valente, MD
ORCID: 0009-0005-0152-2577
23 June 2026
While the European Union invests heavily in the Silver…
What precedes desire? Not its object, not its absence — but the internal field within which an object of desire could emerge. This field has a name: the Pre-Desire Field Capacity (PDFC). And…
The Harm That Looks Like Helpfulness
The EU AI Act has built a sophisticated architecture for detecting risk. It asks whether systems are transparent, whether they…
The Phenomenon
Jules Verne described it in 1882: a flash of green light, lasting a fraction of a second, visible at the precise moment the upper rim of the sun disappears below the sea…
Two concepts are missing from current AI governance discourse — not because they are obscure, but because they are so fundamental that frameworks have passed over them in favour of proxies.
Zenodo DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20607306
The New Governance Problem
For the past decade, AI governance has focused on two concerns: what AI…
Part of the Cognitive Governance Framework (CGF) series
Full paper: Valente, S. (2026). Capital, Cognition, and the Architecture of Sedation.
…Stefano Valente, MD — Independent Researcher, Italy
Based on Zenodo DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20546168
1. Context and Motivation
Across the last decade, conversational AI design has…
Preface — A Dance, Not a Collapse
A waltz turns; it does not fall.
The transition we are living through is not a catastrophe but a choreography: losses that arrive as movements, each with…
The problem is not that AI generates text. The problem is that we cannot see the seam.
Current watermarking frameworks treat provenance as binary: a piece of content is either human…