# The Neuroscientist Behind Qubic's AI: Who Is Dr. Jose Sanchez

By TesserAI (@usetesserai) · 2026-06-06 · Original: https://x.com/usetesserai/status/2063272550449467732
Source page: https://qubic.church/articles/who-is-dr-jose-sanchez

Most AI today is built by engineers. Aigarth is built by engineers - and a neuroscientist. His name is Dr. Jose Sanchez.

Dr. José Sánchez García is a doctor of psychology and a neuroscientist - and also a biotechnologist and an industrial engineer. That mix is the whole point: he can read a circuit and a cortex with the same eye. He doesn't treat intelligence as just code to optimize, or just biology to admire. He lives in the rare overlap between the two.

He teaches Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience and Social Psychology at UNIR in Spain, and researches as a social neuroscientist at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, with more than 20 publications in international journals behind him.

## What he actually studies

His research has always circled the deeply human: the social emotions of pride, shame and guilt; how gaze and even the size of a person's pupils shape the way we understand one another; how misinformation moves through a mind.

For a whole career, he's been asking one question above the rest - how does a biological brain actually learn? And it turns out that's exactly the question modern AI keeps tripping over. The dominant story of AI today is about size: more data, more parameters, more compute. Sanchez's work points somewhere else - toward the idea that intelligence isn't something you scale up to, but something you grow, the way living minds do.

## Not just "how", but "should we"

Sanchez doesn't only ask how intelligence works - he asks what we owe it. He's appeared on Spanish television to discuss neural implants and Neuralink, and he speaks publicly on neuroderechos - neurorights - the idea that as technology reaches into the brain, mental privacy is something worth protecting. He's written books for everyday readers too, "Mente Salvaje" and "Empatía en un mundo que duele", following the human mind out of the lab and into ordinary life.

It's a rare and reassuring posture in this field: someone who takes "should we" as seriously as "can we."

## His role at Qubic

At Qubic, Dr. Sanchez is a Scientific Advisor - and, with David Vivancos @VivancosDavid , the co-inventor of Neuraxon.

Neuraxon is a blueprint for a more brain-like kind of computation. Where conventional neural networks speak in binary - on or off - Neuraxon speaks in three states: +1 to excite, −1 to inhibit, and a 0 in the middle. That neutral 0 is the giveaway. It isn't a trick to save compute; it's a structural choice - a buffer that lets the system settle gently instead of snapping between extremes, the way living tissue holds a beat before it fires. And it never pauses between tasks: Neuraxon runs in continuous time, its inputs always flowing, its connections free to form, strengthen, weaken, even die - shaped by experience rather than frozen at training.

That's what a neuroscientist brings that engineers alone often can't: not a faster version of the old idea, but a fresh idea about what a neuron even is. His angle traces back to a classic notion in psychology - Spearman's g factor, the idea of a general intelligence - and to the conviction underneath Qubic's whole approach: that you reach real intelligence by building something that learns like a living mind, not by making a model bigger.

## Where it's heading

The work is moving fast, and out in the open. Neuraxon has already entered hybrid testing with Aigarth - Sanchez's biological depth meeting Aigarth's evolutionary engine - with the goal of a "living AI system" that evolves over time instead of sitting frozen like a static model. The code is open source. The papers are public.

And the wider field is taking notice. Neuraxon 2.0 won Best Evening Presentation at the 11th ICMLT in Berlin and is heading toward indexing in Scopus, and the team's latest paper, on a Multi-Neuraxon architecture, was accepted at AGI-26 in San Francisco this July - one of the most established venues in artificial general intelligence research.

## Why we're telling you this

At TesserAI, we're building a marketplace for verifiable AI on Qubic - and Aigarth is the most important ground we're building toward. The kind of AI Dr. Sanchez and the Qubic science team are working to create - one that learns continuously, reasons from structure rather than memory, and can even hold a state that means I don't know - is exactly the kind of AI whose work can be verified. Their science is the bedrock a great deal of our own work rests on.

Right now, Dr. Sanchez is building Aigarth alongside David Vivancos and Come-from-Beyond @c___f___b . We'll tell their story in our next post.

And if you'd like to follow the development of Aigarth right from the source, follow Dr. Jose Sanchez @josesanchezhb. There's no better seat in the house.