“Nature is imagination itself”

James Bridle’s book Ways of Being is a fascinating and enlightening read. If you’re interested in ecology, AI, intelligence, and consciousness (or any combination of those), I highly recommend it.

There is only nature, in all its eternal flowering, creating microprocessors and datacentres and satellites just as it produced oceans, trees, magpies, oil and us. Nature is imagination itself. Let us not re-imagine it, then, but begin to imagine anew, with nature as our co-conspirator: our partner, our comrade and our guide.

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