Parallel Minds: Discovering the Intelligence of Materials

Tripaldi, Laura/ De Giuli, Matteo (Foreward By)

ISBN 10: 191302993X / ISBN 13: 9781913029937

Published by Urbanomic / Sequence Pr, 2022

160 pages. 7.50x5.25x0.59 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # __191302993X

Synopsis:

Insights into the intelligence throughout the natural and technical environment, in the fabric of our devices and dwellings, in our clothes, and under our skin. <p/>Is there a way to understand the materials that surround us not as passive objects, but as other intelligences interacting with our own? In Parallel Minds, expert in materials science and nanotechnology Laura Tripaldi delivers not only detailed insights into the properties and emergent behaviors of matter as revealed by state-of-the-art chemistry, synthetic biology, and nanotech, but also a rich philosophical reflection that crosses the frontier between nature and culture, where the most cutting-edge scientific syntheses resonate with ancient myth. The result is a technomaterial bestiary full of unexpected encounters with "strange minds"--from cobwebs to kevlar and carbon fibre, from centaurs to amoebas to arachnids, from polycephalic slime to resonating plasmons, from viruses to golems. <p/>Parallel Minds reveals the intelligence at large throughout the natural and technical environment, in the fabric of our devices and dwellings, in our clothes, and even under our skin. Full of lateral ideas and unexpected images, Tripaldi's book imbues the study and synthesis of materials with a new urgency. For not only do the materials that surround us participate actively in the construction of the world in which we live, but harnessing their ability to interact intelligently with their environment could be the key to the future of our species.

About the Author: Laura Tripaldi is a PhD student in Materials Science and Nanotechnology at Universitą degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca.<br/> <br/>Matteo De Giuli is a writer for TV and radio, and Senior Editor of the online journal Il Tascabile. He has collaborated with Rai3, Radio3 Rai, Not, and National Geographic. <br/>

Bibliographic Details

Title: Parallel Minds: Discovering the Intelligence...
Publisher: Urbanomic / Sequence Pr
Publication Date: 2022
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Brand New