Italiano. Doctor en Filosofía por la Università degli Studi di Torino. Ha realizado investigaciones post-doctorales en Torino, Heidelberg y París. Es autor de los libros: L’esperienza della verità (2011), Modalità ed esistenza (2009), Teorie del giudizio (2005), Il postmoderno(2002), Hegel, Heidegger e la grammatica dell’essere (1996) y Scrittura e técnica. Derrida e la metafísica (1992). Actualmente es Profesor del Departamento de Filosofía de la Università degli Studi di Torino y es Director, junto con Gianni Vattimo, de Trópos. Rivista di ermeneutica e critica filosófica.
With the word “biotechnology” we can understand a technology that modifies the life as zoe or as bios. Whereas in the former case we speak of GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms), in the latter it would be more approrpiate to speak of CMO (Culturally Modified Organisms). In this paper I aim at examine the meaning of this tecnological intervention on life, starting from the claim that the human being is an intrinsecally cultural animal, which modifies through technology the surrounding environment and consequently himself. The concepts that intervene in the definition of the human being as OCM are that of “world” (derived from Heidegger) and that of “objective spirit” (derived from Hegel). In the final part I present a comparison with Clark’s and Chalmers’s theory of the extended mind, by proposing a different tesis, that of the “concrete mind”
