Dr. Domenico Napoletani

Dr. Domenico Napoletani is a scientist, philosopher of data science, poet, and the founder of Germinal Computing LLC, a company dedicated to solving currently intractable scientific problems with novel quantum computing and artificial intelligence methods inspired by living phenomena.

Dr. Napoletani’s research has always been guided by the belief, derived from natural philosophy, that we can imagine and connect everything within everything else (omnia in omnibus fingere), and reach a deeper understanding of any problem through a systematic analysis of the subjective conscious experience and of collective, distributed biological systems. 

His interdisciplinary collaborations include: 

• The theory of isolated objects, a distributed model where quantum mechanics is the emergent result of the intermittent matching of information as processed by distinct isolated objects.
• A phase integral approach to real analytic geometry that, most notably, reduces the problem of the irrationality of real numbers to asymptotic properties of suitable phase integrals.
• The philosophical framework of agnostic science, which identifies general, foundational paradigms for data science and analyzes their profound impact on scientific practice. 
• An ongoing effort to build a theory of developmental economics, seen as a rigorous analogical framework to transfer properties of developmental biological systems to economic systems.

Dr. Napoletani also taught  interdisciplinary courses on the intersection of science and poetry in the work of J. W. Goethe and on mathematics and religious experience as seen in the writings of Simone Weil. In his essays on education and data science and on poetry as a privileged means of knowledge he advocated for a renewal of humanism centered on the ability of dissonant sensorial stimuli to enhance the power of our conjecturing. Hiscreative writings, intertwined with his scientific and philosophical reflections, include the poetry collection Forme Germinali.