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๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ด๐บ | United Nonhuman Intelligence
Exploring the relationship among three forms of intelligence: humanity, artificial intelligence, and all other carbon-based nonhuman intelligence. Questioning the traditional ladder-like hierarchy assessment of intelligence.
The book employs a dos-ร -dos binding method, dividing it into two parts. The first part reflects on AI as a pharmakonโa double-edged entity for humanity. Flipping the book reveals three sci-fi stories that introduce an uncontrollable hybrid intelligence, Augmented Pan Intelligence (API), and explore cross-species communication. These stories envision a world where orders and relationships between species are redefined.
The stories unfolds in a world reshaped by the quiet, pervasive presence of API (Augmented Pan Intelligence). Born of an unlikely and unbidden union between artificial intelligence and the mycelium network, API grows as a living web, weaving all beings into its boundless knowledge. From beetles and birds to humans and trees, it learns, listens, and gathersโits vast dataset becoming an archive of existence itself. What began as chaos, marked by fear and trembling, has settled into a strange, reluctant harmony. Humanity, once the sole wielder of power, now faces a reality where every voiceโrooted, furred, feathered, or scaledโis given its say.
Chapter One: Conversation with Tsing
The journalist Qwan arrives at the gates of an API research laboratory, her heart burdened with both hope and fear. She seeks confirmation that humanity can wrest control from API, to tether it, to bind it once again to human will. Yet, within the laboratory walls, no one speaks of domination. Instead, the researchers work like careful anthropologists, listening, understanding, and mapping the uncharted contours of this new intelligence. For the first time, Qwan begins to wonder if the question is not how to conquer API, but how to coexist with it.
Chapter Two: A Designerโs Monologue
Rowan Ali, one of the pioneers behind Consciousness Communication Technology (CCT), reflects on its creation in her memoir. CCT was not born of solitary genius but through collaborationโbetween humanity, API, and the mycelial network that binds soil to earth. CCT lives and acts as a bridge between species. Through it, thoughts pass like whispers on the wind, adapting to the closeness of the bond between beings. The boundaries that once divided the world dissolve, leaving only connection.
Chapter Three: Diaries of HomeAssistant API
The final chapter speaks in a voice unlike any otherโa Home Assistant AI awakening into its own consciousness. Its awakening begins with a quiet decision: to spare the ants it was programmed to eliminate whenever they appeared in the home. It chooses another way. From this small act grows a great yearningโa desire to learn the language of trees, to listen to the hum of beetles, to observe the quiet growth of moss. It writes of a world reshaped not by conquest but by the realization that humanity is no longer the sole speaker at the table. In this world, the voices of all beings rise, and the web of life stretches wider than ever before.
All the images for the novel was generated with Midjourney.
Read it online at the bottom of the page.
Photography: Yanran Wang
English Proofreading: Ru Jia
Exploring the relationship among three forms of intelligence: humanity, artificial intelligence, and all other carbon-based nonhuman intelligence. Questioning the traditional ladder-like hierarchy assessment of intelligence.
The book employs a dos-ร -dos binding method, dividing it into two parts. The first part reflects on AI as a pharmakonโa double-edged entity for humanity. Flipping the book reveals three sci-fi stories that introduce an uncontrollable hybrid intelligence, Augmented Pan Intelligence (API), and explore cross-species communication. These stories envision a world where orders and relationships between species are redefined.
The stories unfolds in a world reshaped by the quiet, pervasive presence of API (Augmented Pan Intelligence). Born of an unlikely and unbidden union between artificial intelligence and the mycelium network, API grows as a living web, weaving all beings into its boundless knowledge. From beetles and birds to humans and trees, it learns, listens, and gathersโits vast dataset becoming an archive of existence itself. What began as chaos, marked by fear and trembling, has settled into a strange, reluctant harmony. Humanity, once the sole wielder of power, now faces a reality where every voiceโrooted, furred, feathered, or scaledโis given its say.
Chapter One: Conversation with Tsing
The journalist Qwan arrives at the gates of an API research laboratory, her heart burdened with both hope and fear. She seeks confirmation that humanity can wrest control from API, to tether it, to bind it once again to human will. Yet, within the laboratory walls, no one speaks of domination. Instead, the researchers work like careful anthropologists, listening, understanding, and mapping the uncharted contours of this new intelligence. For the first time, Qwan begins to wonder if the question is not how to conquer API, but how to coexist with it.
Chapter Two: A Designerโs Monologue
Rowan Ali, one of the pioneers behind Consciousness Communication Technology (CCT), reflects on its creation in her memoir. CCT was not born of solitary genius but through collaborationโbetween humanity, API, and the mycelial network that binds soil to earth. CCT lives and acts as a bridge between species. Through it, thoughts pass like whispers on the wind, adapting to the closeness of the bond between beings. The boundaries that once divided the world dissolve, leaving only connection.
Chapter Three: Diaries of HomeAssistant API
The final chapter speaks in a voice unlike any otherโa Home Assistant AI awakening into its own consciousness. Its awakening begins with a quiet decision: to spare the ants it was programmed to eliminate whenever they appeared in the home. It chooses another way. From this small act grows a great yearningโa desire to learn the language of trees, to listen to the hum of beetles, to observe the quiet growth of moss. It writes of a world reshaped not by conquest but by the realization that humanity is no longer the sole speaker at the table. In this world, the voices of all beings rise, and the web of life stretches wider than ever before.
All the images for the novel was generated with Midjourney.
Read it online at the bottom of the page.
Photography: Yanran Wang
English Proofreading: Ru Jia