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Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

by James Bridle. James pulls an brilliant move of using various examples in technology as a tool to help us rethink our place in nature & reconnect with the (beyond human) world.

He weaves a fascinating tale with myriads of threads such as Cybernetics, Neural Nets, Internet, Random Numbers, Analog computers, Slime molds, Sortition vs Voting, Mycelium, Mysticism in animals, Turing machines, Personhood of non-humans etc.

A nice summary to whet your appetite, https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/07/more-than-human/#umwelt