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It may be possible to influence a forest's wants; Joscha Bach cannot rule this out because he is uncertain where information processing across organisms becomes integrated and intentional.

Unresolved speaker · Why Leibniz Couldn't Find the Mind Inside the Mill (Joscha Bach) · 2 Nov 2026

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“Maybe it's possible to influence what a forest wants at some level. I don't know that. I cannot exclude it from possibility because there's so much information processing going on across organisms that I don't know at which levels in nature information is integrated and at which point it becomes intentional.”
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