A bold and beguiling journey into the unexpected interactions between organisms on our planet by award-winning researcher Melanie Challenger
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Melanie Challenger writes, researches and broadcasts on the history of ideas, the history and philosophy of science and the relationship between humans and the living world. She is the author of How to Be Animal: What it Means to Be Human, among other works, and host of the podcast The Psychosphere. She is also an award-winning poet and librettist for opera and oratorios, and a National Geographic Explorer. Melanie is internationally active in bioethics and Vice President of the RSPCA.
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Hardback. Etat : New. Main. What does it mean to be alive? The slow contortion of a plant towards light, the spear-flight of a hawk towards their quarry - these are purposeful actions. But where does that purpose come from, and what does it tell us about who we are?In Alive, researcher and natural philosopher Melanie Challenger takes us through the latest discoveries in biology and physics to reveal a radical truth: to be alive is first and foremost a way of being a body. From Greenland sharks that can live for half a millennium, to birds that sense the Earth's magnetic field through their retinas, and even slime moulds that solve mazes, this book tells a new story of intelligence in the living world.A scientifically grounded challenge to the idea that life is either a machine run by genes or an essence separable from the body, Alive restores agency, purpose and meaning to organisms in an age of artificial intelligence and biodiversity loss. By recognising that our bodies are both how and why we are alive, this book asks what it would mean to live - and to act - with that knowledge. N° de réf. du vendeur LU-9781805300052
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Hardcover. Etat : new. Hardcover. What does it mean to be alive? The slow contortion of a plant towards light, the spear-flight of a hawk towards their quarry - these are purposeful actions. But where does that purpose come from, and what does it tell us about who we are?In Alive, researcher and natural philosopher Melanie Challenger takes us through the latest discoveries in biology and physics to reveal a radical truth: to be alive is first and foremost a way of being a body. From Greenland sharks that can live for half a millennium, to birds that sense the Earth's magnetic field through their retinas, and even slime moulds that solve mazes, this book tells a new story of intelligence in the living world.A scientifically grounded challenge to the idea that life is either a machine run by genes or an essence separable from the body, Alive restores agency, purpose and meaning to organisms in an age of artificial intelligence and biodiversity loss. By recognising that our bodies are both how and why we are alive, this book asks what it would mean to live - and to act - with that knowledge. A book which opens our eyes to how both life and intelligence is rebellious; how interactions between different life forms cannot be easily predicted - and in doing so helps us both to appreciate its huge diversity and also re-evaluate our place in it as human beings Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781805300052
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