
Ecosystems and AI: An Unusual Alliance and What it Means for Our Future
One of our great adaptations, or frailties, depending on who you ask, is to understand the world by deduction. If you come across a new thing in the forest, you immediately, unconsciously assess it for its relative danger. How big? How fast? Does it have claws and growl? Yes, run! Your brain naturally figures out what to do by referencing what you’ve seen or heard before. It’s tempting to deduce and reduce everything like this, and we do, because it’s efficient for our brains. But deduction can betray us. When we reduce the world to neat categories without seeing relationships, we strip away context. And without context, without feeling connected



























