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Summary:

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 includes the meaning-making practices of lifeforms from bacteria to plants, animals, humans, and some forms of artificial intelligence. Through a sweeping survey of evolutionary biology, computer science, and contemporary literature, Hayles insists that another way of life, with ICF at its core, is not only possible but necessary to safeguard our planet's future.

Table of Contents:

• 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.

Author/Creator:

Hayles, N. Katherine, 1943- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Bacteria to AI: human futures with our nonhuman symbionts [by Hayles, N.K.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Bacteria to AI [by Hayles, N.K.] (Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2025 — ISBN 9780226835983; LCCN 2024020844; OCLC Number 1430499037)

Subjects:

Cognition — Philosophy

Posthumanism

Cognition — Social aspects

Subliminal perception — Social aspects

Artificial intelligence — Social aspects

Technology — Social aspects

Evolution

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-279) and index.
Description based on: Print version record; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter, viewed March 11, 2025).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 pages)

Call Numbers:

BF311 .H3948 2025eb

ISBNs:

9780226837468 (electronic bk.)
0226837467 (electronic bk.)
9780226835983 (hardcover) [Invalid]
9780226837475 (paperback) [Invalid]
0226837475 (paperback) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1493001992