James Bridle: How Can We Build Solidarity With the ‘More-Than-Human’ World?
How do we go beyond human intelligence to understand and work with the more-than-human life forms on the planet, create new forms of democracy, community and politics, and use new technologies to understand the web of life on Earth?
Recent years have seen rapid advances in 'artificial' intelligence, which increasingly appears to be something stranger than we ever imagined. At the same time, we are becoming more aware of the other intelligences which have been with us all along, unrecognised. These other beings are the animals, plants, and natural systems that surround us, and are slowly revealing their complexity and knowledge – just as the new technologies we've built are threatening to cause their extinction, and ours.
James Bridle, author of Ways of Being: Beyond Human Intelligence, discusses with Tim Smit (Eden Project) and Andrew Kelly (Director, Bristol Ideas) the definition of intelligence; other forms of intelligence and personhood; the ‘more-than-human’; democracy; Turing machines; the better use of technology; the ‘wood-wide-web’; the Internet of Animals, and the importance of education in changing our societies to live more equitably with one another and the non-human world based on solidarity and diversity.
Ways of Being: Beyond Human Intelligence by James Bridle