Riccardo Manzotti is a philosopher, psychologist, and AI expert and the author of The Spread Mind: Why Consciousness and the World Are One.

Manzotti originally specialized in robotics and AI where he started to wonder how matter can have experience of the surrounding world.

His current research focuses on the issue of consciousness and the structure of reality: What is consciousness? Can we design and build a conscious machine? What ethical questions do consciousness and technology raise in the 21st century?

In 2014, at MIT, Riccardo Manzotti presented the Spread Mind Theory (elsewhere dubbed the Mind-Object Identity Theory) that addresses the hard problem of consciousness in a completely radical and new way. Over the last few years, Manzotti has continued to develop and test this hypothesis interacting with the international scientific and philosophical community.