Recent years have seen rapid progress in the field of “artificial” intelligence, which appears to be something stranger than we ever imagined. At the same time, we are becoming more and more aware of the other intelligences that have always been with us, unrecognized, the animals, plants and natural systems that surround us, at a time when the new technologies we have built threaten to cause their extinction, as well as ours.

In Ways of Being, writer and artist James Bridle examines the fascinating, strange and multiple ways of existing on earth. What can we learn from these other forms of intelligence and personality, and how can we change our societies to live more equitably with each other and the non-human world? From Greek oracles to octopuses, forests to satellites, Bridle tells a radical new story about ecology, technology and intelligence. By expanding our definition of these terms to build a meaningful and free relationship with the non-human, based on solidarity and cognitive diversity, we have much to learn…

Reference

Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

James Bridle

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0241469651