Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence -- James Bridle, Paperback Performing Arts And the cargo planes had

And the cargo planes had to make it through enemy airspace and back--without getting shot down themselves

Savik gives the boy a choice: follow me or die like your brothers

and prophetically about some of the most important and controversial questions of our present times: war and peace (including the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East)

and unsolicited input with curiosity and grace

I can work here for a while

Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence -- James Bridle, Paperback Performing Arts And the cargo planes hadArtist, 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"