Israel Huerta Castillo

Researcher in Philosophy at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain), affiliated with the competitive research group Discurso e Identidade. Reviewer for a Springer Nature journal (Journal of Bioethical Inquiry; Philosophy & Technology) and Routledge. I develop SemioCore (https://github.com/iatromantis91/SemioCore-v1), a bioinformatic language and experimental infrastructure for studying the semiodynamics of ageing as loss of biosemiotic plasticity under fixed interpretive regimes. My work sits at the intersection of philosophy of science (scientific discovery, interdisciplinary rationality, indiciary–abductive inference, and epistemic aesthetics), logic and formal modelling (contextuality, quantum-compatible probability frameworks, and interventionist operators), and biosemiotics as a general account of biological meaning-making. I develop a Semiotic Theory of Consciousness (minimal semiosis, criteria for empirical testability, and extensions to plant and “quantum theories” debates), alongside a pragmatist–enactive programme on bio–artificial continuity (minimal semiotic agency, robotics, and AI). A second axis addresses ageing and medicine: contextual semiodynamics as competence decline, evo-devo and life-history constraints, and the bioethics of healthy ageing, health equity, and dignified longevity, including prohumanist constraints for AI-mediated digital health and citizen-science/DIYbio approaches to gerontology. A third line examines governance through signs and numbers: metric sovereignty, audit power, capitalism as an aesthetic religion, and philosophy of economy; in parallel, I work in philosophy of law and applied ethics (consent, autonomy, dignity, and criminal-law boundaries) and in global health justice (hunger framed through biopsychosocial and disease–illness–sickness analytics).