Biography · The researcher
Director of Research · ISHEA Institute
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ORCID 0009-0004-1822-4798
Carlos J. Pérez Pulido is the founder of the ISHEA Institute — International System for Human–Ecological Advancement — and its Director of Research. He works from Bologna, Italy.
His research starts from a single question: when does a system keep energy and information in phase, and when does it lose them? He calls that condition coherence, and argues the same criterion reads a cell, a company and a country. His models follow from that: they do not describe three different worlds, but three scales of one.
The programme is organised into three frameworks. ISHEA–BIO works at cellular scale — ATP, FOXP pathways, cortisol dynamics, NAD⁺ balance — treating the energy budget as the real limit on what an organism can think and repair. The K-Model measures the density and flow of knowledge across populations and organisations. And the EICI index, written as energy times information over friction, is the attempt to give all of it a form that can be computed and falsified.
From that architecture come the ISHEA Index, the TACC cycle, the LEX subsystems, the HALO system and the Economy 5.0 proposal: measuring development by well-being, sustainability and institutional capacity rather than by GDP.
He is the author of “Biophysics: The Limit of Humanity”, on bioenergetic coherence and systemic thresholds, and “The Inverted Economy”, on knowledge density and sustainable value. He deposits his work in the open: the data, drafts and figures behind each piece sit on OSF with a DOI, and this gallery collects them all.
National systems, governance architectures and macroeconomic stability.
Enterprises, energy systems, cognitive economics and organisational innovation.
Bioenergetics, systems biology, physics, AI and consciousness studies.
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Books
Trajectory
From his work
OSF-ECO-151 · Economy 5.0
Preregistration of the K-Model: hypotheses, falsification criteria and design for a longitudinal panel of some 150 countries (2015–2024) linking TACC, KTR and the LEX subsystems to collective behavior.
OSF-ECO-137 · Economy 5.0
An integrated conclusion to the K-Model: knowledge as a pure message that triggers the TACC cycle and a neurochemical cascade, linking individual resilience to civilizational scale.
OSF-BIO-140 · Bioenergetics
A framework derived from the ISHEA TACC model explaining how living systems preserve functional coherence under energetic constraint, integrating the FOXP, ATP and cortisol axes.
OSF-COG-007 · Collective cognition
A repository in preparation on the design of the learning environments to come; it opens the space where the materials of this line of educational research will gradually be deposited.
OSF-ECO-150 · Economy 5.0
Building on Maslow, Sen and Raworth, the index weights well-being, adjusted progress, ecological sustainability and the role of the state, adding fiscal penalty and institutional anchors.
OSF-ECO-146 · Economy 5.0
The reference edition of Economy 5.0: a fully structured treatment of the methodology, the ISHEA Index variables, their statistical validation and their implementation.
