WAYS OF BEING: ANIMALS PLANTS MACHINES (PB)

Recent years have seen rapid advances in 'artificial' intelligence, which increasingly appears to be something stranger than we ever imagined. At the same time, we are becoming more aware of the other intelligences which have been with us all along, unrecognized. These other beings are slowly revealing their complexity and knowledge - just as the new technologies we've built are threatening to cause their extinction, and ours. From Greek oracles to octopuses, forests to satellites, Bridle tells a radical new story about ecology, technology and intelligence.