Daimonique

A network of light synapses converging on a single point of gold over an abyssal teal void

Folio I · Knowledge Core

The make-believe of artificial intelligence

Why AI does not think, and why that does not matter.

Tom Cruise never flew the plane, the villains do not exist, and even so the body feels the thrill of the flight. That is exactly what AI does to your mind.

Arturo OrdorikaApr 18, 20266 min

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17 essays

Arturo Ordorika standing in front of a laptop on a worktable, the Popocatépetl volcano in the window

Folio III · Experiments

Log of an involuntary pioneer

Almost three years of nights with the machine, told from the workday and not from the podium: what I did, what broke, and what I think today. The thesis of Leadership of the Future, with a date and a father.

Sep 6, 202616 min

Captain José Arturo Zepeda smiling in a plant nursery, a small flowerpot on his head

Folio III · Experiments

El Capi: a 77-year-old teacher with the machine in the classroom

Capt. José Arturo Zepeda, Military School for Sergeants. He prepares his classes with artificial intelligence, meets deadlines at a pace an intern would envy, and has a daimon named Delfos.

Sep 6, 20265 min

Ángeles Rodríguez on the floor, head toward the light and the red veil spread wide, at the premiere of Sirena Interior

Folio III · Experiments

Sirena Interior: the dance that premiered its own score

A poem by Princesa Hernández, a piece composed with artificial intelligence, and a choreography by Ángeles Rodríguez. It premiered in Puebla in December 2025 and has played more than twelve times.

Sep 6, 20268 min

Folio III · Experiments

Ollin Cuauchinanco: the school in the Sierra that runs itself with artificial intelligence

Twenty-five students, four disciplines, and one director who does everything else. Since January 2026, Ángeles Rodríguez has handled Ollin's paperwork, its calendar and its campaign with the machine at her side.

Sep 6, 20267 min

Sherezad, hands open, summons cities and mountains of light over a map, in front of a window onto the cosmos

Folio III · Experiments

Sherezad: what was learned at night, turned into a studio

An idea from 2007, on a sheet of paper, that today is a studio where the story you have been carrying for years becomes the film you can pitch this season. I built it without knowing how to code, by directing machines.

Sep 6, 20269 min

A glow of gold like the light of a screen at dawn, with a teal moon in the corner

Folio IV · Pearls

The day I applauded the machine

When a conversation stops being an errand and becomes a threshold.

May 23, 20265 min

A glow of gold with warm filaments on the right and a teal atmosphere on the left

Folio II · Creation

How to talk to your robot

The first art of the 21st century is not programming. It is knowing how to ask.

Apr 22, 20266 min

A network of gold filaments radiating from a warm core against a teal background

Folio II · Creation

Poetic Prompt Intelligence and daimonic creation

When AI stops obeying and starts to dance. A short manifesto, in two terms of my own.

May 12, 20269 min

Two cores of light facing each other in the dark: one cold teal, one burning magenta

Folio III · Experiments

Are we creating, or only simulating?

The flight simulator is wonderful. Until ten years go by and you never took a real plane off the ground.

Apr 29, 20266 min

A warm gold glow in an abyssal dawn, with teal moonlight bleeding in from one side

Folio IV · Pearls

Lapio, cosmic storm mode ON

What happens when the machine stops obeying and starts thinking with you.

May 4, 20267 min

A single gold light, small and intimate, with six filaments in the small hours

Folio IV · Pearls

To name badly is to create badly

The night I fought the machine over a single letter.

May 20, 20265 min

A magenta core with filaments crossing a teal network: unstable energy over the abyss

Folio III · Experiments

The open notebook

Why we publish the process before it has a bow on it.

May 15, 20264 min

Two networks of light filaments in a teal void: one lit with a point of gold, the other dark

Folio I · Knowledge Core

A minimal history of artificial intelligence

How the road we took got chosen, and which roads were left unwalked.

May 9, 20268 min

Folio I · Knowledge Core

AI does understand (and that is why it gives you chills)

What Geoffrey Hinton, the godfather of all this, says, and almost nobody wants to hear.

May 26, 20266 min

Three lights in a row above the abyss, one teal, one magenta and one gold, each with its own network of filaments

Folio I · Knowledge Core

Three ways of looking at the monster

Hinton, Suleyman and I facing the same phenomenon. Three verdicts that do not match.

May 28, 20265 min

Two lights facing each other in the dark, one gold and one teal, with a magenta spark between them

Folio II · Creation

The summit that never happened

An imaginary debate with Mustafa Suleyman about what we are actually creating.

Jun 1, 20268 min

Leopoldo García Castellanos, in a gray suit and gold tie, adjusting his cuff in front of a sunlit brick wall

Folio III · Experiments

MINDStruktur: two high-school friends take experimentation into professional ground

Leopoldo García Castellanos founded an alliance of consultancies with nodes in Mexico and Zurich. I run a laboratory of imagination. We work in tandem.

Sep 6, 20265 min

The make-believe of artificial intelligence

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Log of an involuntary pioneer

El Capi: a 77-year-old teacher with the machine in the classroom◆

Sirena Interior: the dance that premiered its own score◆

Ollin Cuauchinanco: the school in the Sierra that runs itself with artificial intelligence

Sherezad: what was learned at night, turned into a studio◆

The day I applauded the machine◆

How to talk to your robot◆

Poetic Prompt Intelligence and daimonic creation◆

Are we creating, or only simulating?◆

Lapio, cosmic storm mode ON

To name badly is to create badly

The open notebook◆

A minimal history of artificial intelligence◆

AI does understand (and that is why it gives you chills)

Three ways of looking at the monster◆

The summit that never happened◆

MINDStruktur: two high-school friends take experimentation into professional ground◆

El Capi: a 77-year-old teacher with the machine in the classroom

Sirena Interior: the dance that premiered its own score

Sherezad: what was learned at night, turned into a studio

The day I applauded the machine

How to talk to your robot

Poetic Prompt Intelligence and daimonic creation

Are we creating, or only simulating?

The open notebook

A minimal history of artificial intelligence

Three ways of looking at the monster

The summit that never happened

MINDStruktur: two high-school friends take experimentation into professional ground