N. Katherine Hayles is distinguished research professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles and James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emerita of literature at Duke University. She is the author of many books, most recently Postprint: Books and Becoming Computational.

• 1 An Integrated Cognitive Framework2 Can Computers Create Meanings? A Technosymbiotic Perspective3 The Emergence of Technosymbiosis and Gaia Theory4 Cellular Cognition: Mimetic Bacteria and Xenobot Creativity5 Rocks and Microbes: The Two Different Temporal Regimes of Biological and Mineral Evolution6 Inside the Mind of an AI: Materiality and the Crisis of Representation7 GPT-4: The Leap from Correlation to Causality and Its Implications8 Subversion of the Human Aura: Three Fictions of Conscious Robots9 Collective Intelligences: Assessing the Roles of Humans and AIs10 Planetary Reversal: Ecological Relationality versus Political LiberalismAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

"This profound book provides a valuable way of considering a future in which humans collude with nonhuman symbionts."

N. Katherine Hayles is distinguished research professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles and James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emerita of literature at Duke University. She is the author of many books, most recently Postprint: Books and Becoming Computational.

• 1 An Integrated Cognitive Framework2 Can Computers Create Meanings? A Technosymbiotic Perspective3 The Emergence of Technosymbiosis and Gaia Theory4 Cellular Cognition: Mimetic Bacteria and Xenobot Creativity5 Rocks and Microbes: The Two Different Temporal Regimes of Biological and Mineral Evolution6 Inside the Mind of an AI: Materiality and the Crisis of Representation7 GPT-4: The Leap from Correlation to Causality and Its Implications8 Subversion of the Human Aura: Three Fictions of Conscious Robots9 Collective Intelligences: Assessing the Roles of Humans and AIs10 Planetary Reversal: Ecological Relationality versus Political LiberalismAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

"This profound book provides a valuable way of considering a future in which humans collude with nonhuman symbionts."

N. Katherine Hayles is distinguished research professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles and James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emerita of literature at Duke University. She is the author of many books, most recently Postprint: Books and Becoming Computational.

• 1 An Integrated Cognitive Framework2 Can Computers Create Meanings? A Technosymbiotic Perspective3 The Emergence of Technosymbiosis and Gaia Theory4 Cellular Cognition: Mimetic Bacteria and Xenobot Creativity5 Rocks and Microbes: The Two Different Temporal Regimes of Biological and Mineral Evolution6 Inside the Mind of an AI: Materiality and the Crisis of Representation7 GPT-4: The Leap from Correlation to Causality and Its Implications8 Subversion of the Human Aura: Three Fictions of Conscious Robots9 Collective Intelligences: Assessing the Roles of Humans and AIs10 Planetary Reversal: Ecological Relationality versus Political LiberalismAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

"This profound book provides a valuable way of considering a future in which humans collude with nonhuman symbionts."