Beyond human intelligence, or are we stupid?

I loved “Ways of Being: Beyond Human Intelligence”. We are not as smart as we think. The question the author asks is simple. What sort of intelligence actively participates in the drilling, draining and despoliation of the few remaining wildernesses on earth in the name of an idea of progress we already know to be doomed?

Climate and technology

The author would also question whether ai and/or technology will solve the climate crisis. After all, the AI that is currently being developed is the same corporate system responsible for the current crisis.

Our perspective on intelligence

We’re mostly talking about this kind of corporate intelligence and ignoring all the other kinds of things that AI — that any kind of intelligence — could be. We should really change the way we think about intelligence: what it is, how it acts on the world, and who possesses intelligence.

We are too narrow

The book blows you away with intelligence at the level of plants, birds, octopuses, monkeys, ants, dolphins, bees, trees and several others. It all depends on your perspective; the human perspective is arrogant, narrow and delusional. We are simply not the sole possessor of intelligence, and we need some serious reframing.