vegetal intelligence and new new materialism, supplementing our AI curriculum

Dear Colleagues, 

Nonstandard computation and materials science are beginning to meet in work that is both techno-scientifically and philosophically fresh, provocative!

For our bibliography for AME's AI curriculum:


Susan Stepney, "The neglected pillar of material computation”, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 237.9, 2008, 1157-1164.


Susan Stepney, Professor Computer Science, York UK

Michaela Eder, Wolfgang Schäffner, Ingo Burgert, and Peter Fratzl, "Wood and the activity of dead tissue”, Adv. Mater. 2020, 2001412. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adma.202001412


Thanks to Adrian Freed for drawing attention to Stepney et al in that Phys. D volume years ago.

Related references would be most welcome!