Months after first noticing this book, I was sitting in the dentist’s chair, waiting, examining the tree outside while listening to a podcast on panpsychism. I was thinking about tree intelligence and AI, and about how little we knew about the intelligence of other beings. In that moment, the book’s subtitle came back to me: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for Planetary Intelligence. That was when I decided to read it.
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A worldview where everything doesn’t exist for us
I'm reading How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell, and she mentions the German philosopher Martin Buber and his book I and Thou. For Buber, there are two ways of looking at the world: I–It In the I–It way of looking, I …