Bacteria to AI: Human Futures with Our Nonhuman Symbionts

by N. Katherine Hayles

A new theory of mind that includes nonhuman and artificial intelligences.

The much-lauded superiority of human intelligence has not prevented us from driving the planet into ecological disaster. For N. Katherine Hayles, the climate crisis demands that we rethink basic assumptions about human and nonhuman intelligences. In Bacteria to AI, Hayles develops a new theory of mind--what she calls an integrated cognitive framework (ICF)--that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226835987
• ISBN13: 9780226835983
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 304 Pages