Bacteria to AI : human futures with our nonhuman symbionts

Author(s)

N. Katherine Hayles

The University of Chicago Press, 2025

Content Type: text (ncrcontent), Media Type: unmediated (ncrmedia), Carrier Type: volume (ncrcarrier)

Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-279) and index

An integrated cognitive framework
Can computers create meanings? a technosymbiotic perspective
The emergence of technosymbiosis and Gaia theory
Cellular cognition: mimetic bacteria and xenobot creativity
Rocks and microbes: the two different temporal regimes of biological and mineral evolution
Inside the mind of an AI: materiality and the crisis of representation
GPT-4: the leap from correlation to causality and its implications
Subversion of the human aura: three fictions of conscious robots
Collective intelligences: assessing the roles of humans and AIs
Planetary reversal: ecological relationality versus political liberalism