Ways of Being | James Bridle

Why it is included: We usually define "Intelligence" as "what humans do" (logic, language).

Bridle explodes this narrow definition. They explore "More-than-Human Intelligence"—from the slime molds that can solve mazes to the complex social networks of forests, and even the "alien" intelligence of AI.

Bridle argues that AI should not be built to mimic corporate humans, but to help us commune with the planetary mind.

We include this to upgrade our definition of technology.

Instead of building AI to dominate nature, Bridle envisions a "Internet of Animals" and a technology stack that integrates us back into the ecology. It is a visionary text that creates a new alliance between biology and code, moving us from "Artificial Intelligence" to "Ecological Intelligence."