But a Euglena colony — and even less an entire pond — is not an individual machine, it’s a system of its own: an ecosystem, a…
But a Euglena colony — and even less an entire pond — is not an individual machine, it’s a system of its own: an ecosystem, a rich admixture, a diverse assemblage of soupy life. The pond goes beyond the individual brain, beyond even one kind of brain, a particular species or genus, and into the possibility of a system of minds, all relating and inter-relating, and adapting to one another in complex, ever-shifting ways.
James Bridle. 2022. Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence. Penguin.