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

by James Bridle

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250872960
• ISBN13: 9781250872968
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Picador USA
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.3"