for the current scientific narrative to guide us toward a planetary community, we must reframe its focus—not by portraying science as the triumph of human reason over the natural world, but as a narrative that situates humanity within the epic vastness of cosmic and evolutionary history.

Our very survival depends upon our ability to make a new compact with the more-than-human world, one which views the intelligence, the innate being, of all things – animal, vegetable and machine – not as another indication of our own superiority, but as an intimation of our ultimate interdependence, and as an urgent call to humility and care.

Thus symbiosis provides one of the most powerful, empirical counterpoints to all our horror stories about the development of opaque technological infrastructures, of systems of analysis, determination and control, of dangerously asymmetrical intelligences and power relationships. It simply doesn’t have to be this way and, moreover, it doesn’t want