In the twenty-first century, the boundaries between both humans and machines and humans and animals are hotly contested and debated. In Humans, Animals, Machines, Glen A. Mazis examines the increasingly blurring boundaries among the three and argues that despite their violating collisions, there are ways for the three realms to work together for mutual thriving. Examining Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, and Haraway; artificial intelligence that includes "MIT Embodied AI"; newer holistic brain research; animal studies; the attachment theory of psychologist Daniel Siegel; literary examples; aesthetic theory; technology research; contemporary theology; physics; poetry; machine art; Taoism; and firsthand accounts of cyborg experience, the book reconsiders and dares to propose a new type of ethics and ecospirituality that would do justice to the overlapping relationships among humans, animals, and machines. Book jacket.

Glen A. Mazis is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Penn State at Harrisburg and the author of Earthbodies: Rediscovering Our Planetary Senses, also published by SUNY Press

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Approaching Humans, Animals, and Machines	p. 1
Blurred Boundaries	p. 1
Where Are the Machines?	p. 2
Are Humans Not Animals?	p. 4
Are We Not Confused about Definitions?	p. 6
Doing Away with Hierarchy Can Preserve Uniqueness	p. 8
Ambiguity, Openness to Experience, Phenomenology, and Nondualism	p. 11
Embodiment as Cooperation with the Surround	p. 14
Meaning-Bearing Matter	p. 17
The Common Ground between Animals and Humans: Prolonged Bodies in Dwelling Places	p. 21
The Elusive Boundaries among Humans, Animals, and Machines	p. 21
Avoiding Reductive Senses of Overlaps of Humans, Animals, and Machines	p. 23
New Ways to See Overlaps and Differences: Living Space and "Understanding" One's Place	p. 24
Animal and Human Worlds and False Boundaries: Heidegger and von Uexkull	p. 28
The Lack of an Expanded Sense of Embodiment and Animality in Heidegger	p. 32
How Another Sense of Embodiment Opens These Dimensions	p. 38
Differing Spaces, Bodies, and Differing Worlds, but Open to Each Other	p. 44
Machines Finding Their Place: Humans and Animals Already Live There	p. 49
If Bodies Are Relations to Surrounds, Are Artificially Intelligent Machines Gaining Bodies?	p. 49
Embodied Understanding, Movement, and Meaning: Robots and Embodied Artificial Intelligence	p. 53
Enmeshed Worlds: Cochlear Implants and Michael Chorost's Sense of Being a Cyborg	p. 58
Making a Cochlear Implant Work and Perceptual Faith, Attention Flow, and Emotional Connection	p. 64
Indeterminacy Is Openness to the Overlap	p. 70
Plain Machines and How We Are All in This World Together: Humans, Animals, and Machines	p. 75
Dangers of Imploded Boundaries and the Need for Ambiguity	p. 82
Drawing the Boundary of Humans with Animals and Machines: Greater Area and Depth	p. 87
Can We Even Draw Boundary Lines?	p. 87
"The Rational Animal" Using Tools, Speaking, and Passing the Turing Test	p. 91
Thinking "Substance" and How It Feels to Meet a Thinker with a Face	p. 94
Human Thought Extended by Machines	p. 99
Humans Locate and Direct Themselves in Mood, Emotion, Feeling, and Thought	p. 104
"We Feel" and the Emotional Valence	p. 109
Neural and Material Plasticity and Open Systems	p. 113
Brains as Process, Emotions as Integrating, and Selves both Inside and Out	p. 118
Drawing the Boundary of Humans with Animals and Machines: Reconsidering Knowing and Reality	p. 125
Juxtapositions, Brain Hemispheres, Brains as Observer/Observed, and the Logic of Yin/Yang	p. 125
Quantum Minds and Nondualistic Reality	p. 132
Nonlocal Quantum Reality, "Phenomenality," and Magic in Emotion	p. 137
Imagination, Being Moved, and the Virtual Dimension of Human Life	p. 141
The Storytelling Communal Animal, Integrated Brains/Selves, and Human Excellence	p. 148
Ambiguity and Boundaries among Networks	p. 153
Inside and Outside Ourselves Simultaneously, Freedom, Interbeing	p. 156
Humans Witness the World's Depth in Multivalent Apprehension	p. 161
Animals: Excellences and Boundary Markers	p. 169
The Problem of Understanding Animals' Perspectives from Within	p. 169
The Thickness of Animal Perception versus a Reductive Mechanical Model	p. 177
Animals and Prereflective, Perceptually Grounded Selves	p. 182
Animal Perceptual Sensitivity Meshes with Ecological Niches, Not Human Enclosures	p. 186
Instinct as the Life of the Dream	p. 190
The Expressive Spontaneity of Animals as Embodied Dialogue	p. 195
Animals in the Slower Time We Call Nature	p. 200
Machines: Excellences and Boundary Markers	p. 209
Machines and Solid, Impervious Materiality	p. 209
Machines, Consistency, and the Time of the Earth	p. 213
Machines, Power, Precision, and Machine Beauty	p. 218
Machines, Speed, and the Lack of Place for Deeper Time	p. 222
Machines, the Arbitrary, and Dissonant, Arrhythmic Time	p. 227
Machines as Woven into the Fabric of the Surround	p. 230
Conclusion: Toward the Community of Humans, Animals, and Machines	p. 235
Is There Personhood for Animals and Machines?	p. 235
Obligations to Sacrificing Animals and Helping Machines, Good and Bad Persons, and Guardianship	p. 244
An Ecospirituality of Humans, Animals, and Machines	p. 251
Notes	p. 259
Index	p. 267
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