James Bridle — The Intelligence Singing All Around Us

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Published 2023-03-02
You might want to take a walk with this one. It is big and full of brain food and an enlivening opening of imagination to possibilities that are emergent now: the notion of the “broad commonwealth of life" that we are “inextricably entangled with and suffused by"; the paradox that the more accurately you try to measure some things, the more unmeasurable they become; the way words we use all the time have kept our cellular belonging to the natural world alive, even as civilization forgot.

The technologist/artist James Bridle brings all of this into interplay with an intriguing, refreshing lens on our lives with technology — and with all that artificial intelligence is and might become.

You might not think of intelligence the same way again, or the truth of mythology, or the letters of the alphabet, or what it means to be human. And you will smile next time you access the place where your digital life is stored and realize what it says about us that we named it The Cloud.

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James Bridle is an artist and technologist and author of the books "Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence" and "New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future". Their writing has appeared in The Guardian, Wired, The Atlantic, and many other places. Their art has been exhibited around the world, including at NOME Gallery in Berlin.

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All Comments (10)
  • @heath_br
    The part on technology drawing us back into nature was profound
  • @Dreamaster2012
    It doesn't get cooler than this. Language spirals back onto itself to express the inexpressible ever forward and backwards in time . . .
  • @Dreamaster2012
    The term Human becomes that thing that transcends it as it includes it as a definition. As we discover, so who are expanded in all directions 😮
  • @Dreamaster2012
    Applause 👏 👏 👏 as we back into a Theory of Everything 🔥🔥🔥
  • @Ecoverse
    What is the ecoverse? ChatGpt response: As an AI language model, I am not familiar with the term "ecoverse". However, it is possible that you are referring to the combination of the words "ecosystem" and "universe" to describe the interconnectedness and complexity of all living things and their environments. The term "ecoverse" may be used to emphasize the interdependent relationships between different ecosystems, species, and natural resources on a planetary scale. However, please provide more context or clarification if this is not what you meant.
  • @Ecoverse
    AI will help us pull independent information together to help get at the interconnectedness.