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Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence General History all connected to one anotherArtist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridles Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching exploration of different kinds of intelligenceplant, animal, human, artificialand 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 intelligence.