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

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

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 ou…

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