Biography

David Cota is a professor of Biology and Geology from the Azores, where he lives. His academic background in Biology, Geology, and Nature Management and Conservation has long been combined with an independent philosophical project focused on the relations between matter, complexity, consciousness, technology, and meaning.

In philosophy, he is developing the Ontology of Emergent Complexity, a materialist and immanentist theoretical framework that seeks to rethink both classical and contemporary problems through the concepts of emergence, material reorganisation, and the constitution of the symbolic. Within this framework, he has worked on themes such as artificial consciousness, subjectivity, the critique of metaphysics, posthuman ethics, and the limits of spiritualist or transcendent interpretations of reality.

His perspective belongs broadly to the horizon of secular humanism, naturalism, and critical rationalism, while maintaining a constant concern with the articulation between philosophical reflection, conceptual coherence, and scientific knowledge. In Travessia, he brings together essays, research texts, and critical interventions that reflect this intellectual path.