Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. 1 An Integrated Cognitive Framework 1
4. 2 Can Computers Create Meanings? A Technosymbiotic Perspective 51
5. 3 The Emergence of Technosymbiosis and Gaia Theory 74
6. 4 Cellular Cognition: Mimetic Bacteria and Xenobot Creativity 101
7. 5 Rocks and Microbes: The Two Different Temporal Regimes of Biological and Mineral Evolution 119
8. 6 Inside the Mind of an AI: Materiality and the Crisis of Representation 138
9. 7 GPT-4: The Leap from Correlation to Causality and Its Implications 166
10. 8 Subversion of the Human Aura: Three Fictions of Conscious Robots 180
11. 9 Collective Intelligences: Assessing the Roles of Humans and AIs 204
12. 10 Planetary Reversal: Ecological Relationality versus Political Liberalism 228
13. Acknowledgments 249
14. Notes 253
15. Bibliography 265
16. Index 281