Laura Tripaldi

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Parallel Minds: Discovering the Intelligence of MaterialsPaperback, 31 May 2022

Parallel Minds: Discovering the Intelligence of Materials
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Print Length
192 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Urbanomic
Date Published
31 May 2022
ISBN-10
191302993X
ISBN-13
9781913029937

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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.

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.

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.

Product Details

Author:
Laura Tripaldi
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
GB
Date Published:
31 May 2022
Dimensions:
19.56 x 12.95 x 2.03 cm
ISBN-10:
191302993X
ISBN-13:
9781913029937
Language:
English
Pages:
192
Publisher:
Weight:
181.44 gm

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