New book review on my website!

Usurpation, Sue Burke
★★★★☆

A different sort of book than Semiosis and Interference, taking place entirely on Earth long after the second Pax expedition returns. Can the bamboo keep humans' chaotic conflicts in check? Where do the robots fit in? With so many forms of intelligence, who counts as a person, anyway?

https://hyperborea.org/reviews/books/usurpation/
#ecology #sapience #robots #adaptation #symbiosis #books #review

New book review on my website!

Interference, Sue Burke
★★★★☆

An intriguing followup to Semiosis that weaves several drastically different sentient species (both plant and animal) into a story about factions, community, freedom, communication and war.

https://hyperborea.org/reviews/books/interference/
#language #ecology #sapience #firstContact #adaptation #books #review

Intelligence Evolved at Least Twice in Vertebrate Animals | Quanta Magazine
"Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence multiple times."

#evolution #science #primates #birds #biology #sapience

Les enfants sauvages

#abnégation #anachronisme #anomalie #atemporel #conscience #déshumanisation #enfant #errance #héritage #hétérodoxie #humanité #immémorial #indépendance #inextinguible #iridescence #limbes #mythe #originel #panthéon #résilience #savoir #sapience #sauvage #unicité #voyage

http://atypikal.life/2025/04/08/les-enfants-sauvages/

Does a Bear Think in the Woods?

#nature #animals #intelligence #sapience #sentience

A quotation from Dante Alighieri:

«
Of all creation’s bounty realized,
God’s greatest gift, the gift in which mankind
is most like Him, the gift by Him most prized,
is the freedom he bestowed upon the will.
All his intelligent creatures, and they alone,
were so endowed, and so endowed are still.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/dante-alighieri-poet/70598/

#quote #quotes #quotation #blessing #freewill #God #gift #giftsfromGod #humanity #intelligence #liberty #sapience