Technoetic Ecologies of Another AI: Play, Process, and the Post-Biological Imagination

This article argues for alternative trajectories in artificial intelligence grounded in cybernetic and process-oriented thinking. Drawing on Roy Ascott’s technoetic and post-biological vision, Gordon Pask’s Conversation Theory, and conceptions of living in Chinese philosophy, it proposes an approach to AI that privileges aesthetic experience, playful exploration, and intersubjective consciousness over the predictive optimization that characterizes current large language models. It integrates Philip Agre’s concept of critical technical practice with Brook Ziporyn’s analysis of Chinese correlative thinking and outlines a technoetic ecology of intelligence that resists reduction and embraces the generative potential of ambiguity, conversation, and becoming.