Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence -- James Bridle, Paperback Performing Arts and marriage depended on it

and marriage depended on it

Whether you are going through the ups and downs of growing up

Savik gives the boy a choice: follow me or die like your brothers

and unsolicited input with curiosity and grace

I can work here for a while

Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence -- James Bridle, Paperback Performing Arts and marriage depended on itArtist, 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"