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Our minds should not be considered to be located only in the head: human beings have solved their problems of survival and reproduction, \u201cdistributing\u201d cognitive and ethical functions to external nonbiological sources, props, and aids, which originate cultures. The paper also illustrates the interplay between cultures and distributed cognition and stresses the role of some technological artifacts as moral mediators. The second part of the paper is related to the analysis of the interplay between cultures, morality, and cognition and of some consequences concerning the problem of intercultural communication in the light of the role of moral mediators, docility, and cyberprivacy. 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