Until recently, John worked as Research Scientist at the NASA Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, where he contributed to advanced the emerging field of quantum machine learning, and as full-time professor and researcher in the Universidad de Cartagena, Colombia. John is currently working on a career transition towards contemplative science and on the creation of a foundation to promote education access and well-being. John earned a PhD in Physics 2011 at the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, working at the interface of computer science and physics. He then joined the University of Manchester to apply physics techniques to problems in socio-economics and ecology. During this time he also did research on the foundations of quantum physics, which he continued at the Universidad de Cartagena, Colombia, and in his spare time. Only recently he has posted online a first preprint briefly summarizing some of the ideas. As part of the Diploma Programme of the Abdus Salam ICTP and the M.Sc. Program of the Universidad del Valle, Colombia, he worked on quantum game theory and on the decoherence of superconducting systems.