Binding: Paperback
Description: Artist technologist and philosopher James Bridle's Ways of Being is a brilliant searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence plant animal human artificial and how they transform our understanding of humans place in the cosmos. What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something unique to humans or shared with other beings beings of flesh wood stone and silicon? The last few years have seen rapid advances in artificial intelligence. But rather than a friend or companion AI increasingly appears to be something stranger than we ever imagined an alien invention that threatens to decenter and supplant us. At the same time we re only just becoming aware of the other intelligences that have been with us all along even if we ve failed to recognize or acknowledge them. These others the animals plants and natural systems that surround us are slowly revealing their complexity agency and knowledge just as the technologies we ve built to sustain ourselves are threatening to cause their extinction and ours. What can we learn from them and how can we change ourselves our technologies our societies and our politics to live better and more equitably with one another and the nonhuman world? The artist and maverick thinker James Bridle draws on biology and physics computation literature art and philosophy to answer these unsettling questions. Startling and bold Ways of Being explores the fascinating strange and multitudinous forms of knowing doing and being that make up the world and that are essential for our survival. Includes illustrations
Title: Ways Of Being Animals Plants Machines: The Search For A Planetary Intelligence
Author(s): Bridle James
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250872968
Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/20/2023