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
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Intelligence is a degree of competence to reach the same goal by different means
I am listening to Michael Levin on Quanta’s YouTube video and in order to frame his position on what intelligence is, Levin quotes William James’s definition that: Intelligence is a degree of competence to reach …
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More than human world
I read this term in Ways of Being by James Bridle. It was coined by American ecologist and philosopher David Abram, and refers to a way of thinking that seeks to override our human tendency to separate ourselves …
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Narrow human slice of time and space
In Ways of Being, James Bridle writes about how technology can help us think beyond our narrow scale of time and space We humans live in such a narrow slice of time and space that we are incapable of thinking of, …
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The Overstory
James Bridle mentions The Overstory in his book Ways of Being. Here’s the part that stood out for me: As I read it, I felt something shift in myself, a sense of having been blind all my life to events and …
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Time is only experienced by the events which occur within it
I am watching Terence McKenna’s Final Interview on YouTube and when he states that time is speeding up, the interviewer asks what he means, since the time we keep is the same as ever, and it doesn’t seem to be …