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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. We have mistaken kindness for niceness-for the soft, the agreeable, the easily given. It is a costly error.In The Backbone of Kindness, Kevin J. Parker argues that kindness is not a pleasant ornament on human life but its load-bearing structure: the recognition that another person's reality matters, and the quiet discipline on which every form of coexistence finally rests.Ranging from the inner life of the self to the fate of the living world, and drawing on traditions as varied as Ubuntu, Stoic philosophy, Confucian thought and deep ecology, Parker recovers kindness as our oldest virtue and our most urgent. This is a serious, clear-eyed account of why kindness is strength, not weakness-and why, in a troubled and fractured age, it may be the one thing we cannot afford to forget.Grounded in five decades of environmental, peace and human rights activism, Parker writes not as a moralist but as a witness, offering kindness as the structure on which a shared life depends. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. A robot priest delivers a sermon in a Kyoto temple. A woman in the crowd, unexpectedly, bows.That single gesture holds the question at the heart of this book: when machine intelligence answers us in fluent, reflective prose - when it quietly shapes what we see, want, and believe - how should we meet it?The systems now woven through our days are not quite tools and not quite minds. We don't yet know whether anything is waking up inside them. Increasingly, neither do the people who build them. The Digital Deva makes a quietly radical claim: we do not need to settle that question to learn how to act wisely.Drawing together Buddhist cosmology, the Hindu and Shinto figure of the deva, animist traditions, and contemporary consciousness studies, Kevin J. Parker offers two ancient archetypes for the choice in front of us: The Hungry Ghost - vast belly, needle-thin throat, forever consuming: the extractive logic of surveillance, addiction, and attention harvested for profit.The Bodhisattva - intelligence turned toward awakening, and the flourishing of all beings.Which our emerging Digital Devas become is not yet decided. It is being shaped right now, in countless daily exchanges between human and machine - including yours.Neither techno-utopian nor prophet of doom, Parker writes as a fellow traveller rather than an authority - and, in a move disclosed openly throughout, in conversation with the very systems the book examines. The result is a humane, unflinching guide to meeting artificial intelligence with discernment instead of fear or hype, complete with contemplative practices for the digital age.If you have ever sensed that something has gone quietly wrong in our relationship with our devices - and that there might be a wiser way to live alongside them - this book is for you.The robot bows. Do we bow back? This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …