Main entry:

Tripaldi, Laura.

Title & Author:

Parallel Minds : Discovering the Intelligence of Materials.

Publication:

Cambridge : Urbanomic, 2022.

Description:

1 online resource (123 p.)

Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Foreword, by Matteo De Giuli -- Introduction -- 1. Arachne's Web -- 1.1 The Missing Majority -- 1.2 A Spider's Work -- 1.3 Structure and Function -- 1.4 Weaving the Future -- 2. A Many-Headed Thing -- 2.1 Hydra -- 2.2 Intelligent Jelly -- 2.3 Under the Skin -- 2.4 Being in the World -- 2.5 Through the Looking-Glass -- 3. The Pattern Which Connects -- 3.1 Golem -- 3.2 Thinking Complexity -- 3.3 Bricks and Atoms -- 3.4 Synthesising Complexity -- 3.5 Back to the Mind -- 4. Living Monsters -- 4.1 Artificial Lives -- 4.2 Inorganic Organisms
4.3 Other Forms of Lyfe -- 4.4 Life and Information -- 4.5 The Promises of Monsters -- 5. What the Future is Made Of -- 5.1 Minds in the Web -- 5.2 Arachne 2.0 -- 5.3 Weavers of the Future -- 5.4 Ariadne's Thread -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography

Summary:

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 behaviours 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, and 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. In leading us through this labyrinth of intelligent materials, Tripaldi picks up the thread of new materialisms and in the historical weave between women's work and the unnatural sciences contemporary feminisms. 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.

Resources:
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ISBN:

9781913029517
1913029514
191302993X
9781913029937

Subject:

Intellect Philosophy.
Intelligence Philosophie.

Form/genre:

Electronic books.

Added entries:

de Giuli, Matteo.