Riccardo Manzotti

Meet Riccardo Manzotti: Philosopher, psychologist, AI expert and author of the groundbreaking book “The Spread Mind: Why Consciousness and the World Are One“. This book has been translated into Italian, German, Chinese and Turkish, and has won recognition across the globe.

Riccardo is a full professor of theoretical philosophy at IULM University (Milan), and was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at MIT (Boston). He’s a co-editor of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness and has published numerous books and articles on consciousness, machine consciousness, perception, philosophy of mind, aesthetics, media, and philosophy of art.

Riccardo’s cutting-edge research focuses on exploring the elusive nature of consciousness and the structure of reality. He’s on a mission to answer some of life’s biggest questions: What is consciousness? Is there a separation between our experience of the world and the world itself? Does the present (the now) have a fixed time span? Can we create a conscious machine? And what ethical implications does consciousness and technology bring to the table in the 21st century?