Parallel Minds

2022-05-31 Science

Author : Laura Tripaldi
Release : 2022-05-31
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 514/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Parallel Minds written by Laura Tripaldi. This book was released on 2022-05-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Parallel Mind

2008-11-21

Author : Aliyah Marr
Release : 2008-11-21
Genre :
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 916/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Parallel Mind written by Aliyah Marr. This book was released on 2008-11-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marr draws from her experience as a teacher, visual artist, poet, graphic designer, and art director to demonstrate how one can change his or her body, profession, relationship, and life just by changing thoughts.

So I'm a Spider, So What?, Vol. 6 (light novel)

2019-08-20 Fiction

Author : Okina Baba
Release : 2019-08-20
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 978/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book So I'm a Spider, So What?, Vol. 6 (light novel) written by Okina Baba. This book was released on 2019-08-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I-i-it's not like a spider needs friends! I did it! I'm finally an Arachne!...Aaand things already aren't going the way I thought they would. I'm inexplicably on a road trip with the Demon Lord, a reincarnated baby, and her troubled vampire guardian. I don't really interact with them much, besides subjecting my reborn classmate to insane training, watching the party sneak off into villages, hearing about the delicious food they eat...Wait, hold up. Doesn't it seem like I'm the only one who's being left out?!? W-w-well, the monsters up here taste delicious, so whatever! Sniff, sniff. I wonder if my other brains are having a better time... What are they even up to?

Beautiful Minds

2009-06-30 Nature

Author : Maddalena Bearzi
Release : 2009-06-30
Genre : Nature
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 795/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Beautiful Minds written by Maddalena Bearzi. This book was released on 2009-06-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apes and dolphins: primates and cetaceans. Could any creatures appear to be more different? Yet both are large-brained intelligent mammals with complex communication and social interaction. In the first book to study apes and dolphins side by side, Maddalena Bearzi and Craig B. Stanford, a dolphin biologist and a primatologist who have spent their careers studying these animals in the wild, combine their insights with compelling results. Beautiful Minds explains how and why apes and dolphins are so distantly related yet so cognitively alike and what this teaches us about another large-brained mammal: Homo sapiens. Noting that apes and dolphins have had no common ancestor in nearly 100 million years, Bearzi and Stanford describe the parallel evolution that gave rise to their intelligence. And they closely observe that intelligence in action, in the territorial grassland and rainforest communities of chimpanzees and other apes, and in groups of dolphins moving freely through open coastal waters. The authors detail their subjects’ ability to develop family bonds, form alliances, and care for their young. They offer an understanding of their culture, politics, social structure, personality, and capacity for emotion. The resulting dual portrait—with striking overlaps in behavior—is key to understanding the nature of “beautiful minds.”

I Am Not I

2016-04-19 Philosophy

Author : Jacob Needleman
Release : 2016-04-19
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 141/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book I Am Not I written by Jacob Needleman. This book was released on 2016-04-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “striking” meditation on the relationship between the adult self and the inner child, Jacob Needleman presents excitingly “original positions” on age old spiritual and philosophical questions—Ken Wilbur Seeking to reconcile the split between our inner child and our adult self, eminent philosopher and religious scholar Jacob Needleman evokes the ancient spiritual tradition of a deep dialogue between a guiding wisdom figure and a seeker. The elder offers an initiation to a younger self, an initiation the author feels is missing from our culture. Rendered as a stage play, the conversation between the 80-year-old author and his younger selves unfolds, and an ambiguity emerges as to whether this is strictly the author’s internal dialogue or whether the younger self may be nurturing a rebirth of the author. On one level, I Am Not I brings younger readers (teenagers and young adults) face to face with powerful spiritual and philosophical ideas. But as the book progresses, the dialogue delves into questions and insights that carry astonishing new hope and vision for every man and woman, challenging our culture’s accepted—and often toxic—ideas about humanity’s place in a living universe.

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