Ricard Solé
Corresponding author of sole-2026-llm-cognitive-virus. The paper lists his affiliation as Complex Systems Lab, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (MELIS); Institució Catalana de la Recerca i Estudis Avancats (ICREA); Institut de Biologia Evolutiva, CSIC-UPF; and the santa-fe-institute. The acknowledgements name an AGAUR grant, an AEI grant, and the Santa Fe Institute as support.
The source cites his earlier work, which is how his range appears in this vault. He is the author of Phase Transitions (Princeton University Press, 2011). A 2010 Journal of the Royal Society Interface paper with Corominas-Murtra and Fortuny is cited for language as a population-level cultural system. With Valverde he is cited for how programming languages spread across computers, institutions, and communities. A 2016 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B paper is cited for the idea that this may be a new class of synthetic evolutionary transition. He is also a co-author, with Seoane, Pla-Mauri, Bennett, Hochberg, and michael-levin, of arXiv:2601.12837 (2026), cited for a continuum of hybrid human-machine agents.