<p><b>''Heady, exhilarating, often astonishing'' <i>New York Times</i></b><br><b><br> ''Iridescently original, deeply disorientating and yet somehow radically hopeful ... worth reading and rereading'' Brian Eno</b><br><br><b>''Be prepared to re-evaluate your relationship with the amazing life forms with whom we share the planet. Fascinating, innovative and thought provoking: I thoroughly recommend <i>Ways of Being</i>'' Dr Jane Goodall, DBE</b><br><br>Recent years have seen rapid advances in ''artificial'' intelligence, which increasingly appears to be something stranger than we ever imagined. At the same time, we are becoming more aware of the other intelligences which have been with us all along, unrecognized. These other beings are the animals, plants, and natural systems that surround us, and are slowly revealing their complexity and knowledge - just as the new technologies we''ve built are threatening to cause their extinction, and ours.<br><br>In <i>Ways of Being</i>, writer and