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Riccardo Manzotti
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Riccardo Manzotti is a Professor of Philosophy at IULM University (Milan). He holds a PhD in robotics, and is the author of more than 50 scientific papers and several books. A former Fulbright Visiting Scholar at MIT, he is now visiting professor at UAEU University (Emirates). In 2017, The New York Review of Books posted an extended series of 15 conversations between Manzotti and the novelist Tim Parks on the nature of consciousness in the physical world.
THE SPREAD MIND
Why Consciousness and the World Are One
Drawing on Einstein’s theories of relativity, evidence about dreams and hallucination, and the geometry of light in perception, Riccardo Manzotti argues that consciousness is not a “movie in the head”: it is the actual world we move in. More |
DIALOGUES ON
CONSCIOUSNESS Fifteen conversations between a celebrated writer and a philosopher/robotics engineer that delve into basic questions surrounding our existence, covering topics such as “Where Are Words?”, “The Reality of Dreams,” “The Object of Consciousness,” and “Does Information Smell?” More |
