Ways of Being. Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence Atemmeditation the book turns inspiration into

the book turns inspiration into action with more than 85 pages full of knowledge

Deeply compassionate and beautifully imagined

Although their films are distinctly Japanese their themes are universal—humanity

the novel hit the top five lists of all the major bookstores and went into nine printings

Ways of Being. Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence Atemmeditation the book turns inspiration intoArtist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle's Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligence plant, animal, human, artificial and how they transform our understanding of humans' place in the cosmos. What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something unique to humans, or shared with other beings beings of flesh, wood, stone, and silicon? The last few years have seen rapid advances in "artificial"