Kyle Harrison
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Ways of Being
Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines — The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
- Author
- James Bridle
- Published
- 2022
- Pages
- 384
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Intelligence as something distributed across animals, plants and machines rather than concentrated in human heads.
Where I saw it: @michaelmiraflor on X, December 2, 2025, calling it “a breakthrough book for me” — technology as part of a collective ecology.
Connections
- Artificial Intelligence — the non-anthropocentric framing of the same question.
- Technological Innovation