Natural Intelligence
Yet, as we shall see, there are in fact many ways of doing intelligence, because intelligence is an active process, not just a mental capacity. By rethinking intelligence, and the forms in which it appears in other beings, we will begin to break down some of the barriers and false hierarchies that separate us from other species and the world. In do
... See moreJames Bridle • Ways of Being: Beyond Human Intelligence
“Everything is intelligent. When people say they can’t see it, they’re talking about academic intelligence. They assume what they’ve heard in school about IQ and human intelligence is what it is....[But that] academic achievement, that’s not about survival. What I’m talking about is not academic intelligence. It’s biological intelligence....Every o... See more
Mandy Brown • Our words
This realization allows us to begin the core task of a technological ecology: the reintegration of advanced human craft with the nature it sprung from.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
if we are truly to appreciate what non-human intelligence might consist of – and thus transform our understanding of our own abilities and those of others – we need to stop thinking about intelligence as something defined by human experience. Instead, we must from the outset think about intelligence as something more-than-human.