The revolution of intelligences: dialogues between the Natural, the Social, and the Artificial.

It was in mid-July 2021 that I became aware of the text " The Three Intelligences - Notes for an Article ". In this brief work, the anthropologist and professor Eduardo Viveiros de Castro from the National Museum of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro defines an anthropological study as one that considers its field of objects populated by "intelligent" entities. These entities are capable of establishing reciprocal relationships with the worlds that co-evolve through feedback loops. Viveiros de Castro proposes that there are three major areas of contemporary interest, which could be referred to as the "three intelligences," paraphrasing Guattari. They are:

• Natural Intelligence: encompasses the exploration of both living and non-living things, including their evolution, diversity, communication, and cognition. It includes not only the study of living organisms but also the understanding of geological movements and atmospheric behaviors;

• Social Intelligence: This area focuses on the differences in human ways of constructing the world and the historical conditioning of the relationships (political, epistemic, etc.) between these ways;

• Artificial Intelligence: This area focuses on logical-material devices and assemblies, in principle, produced by human beings, which have the actual or presumed capacity to create worlds and interact with or dissociate themselves from human worlds. It encompasses numerous studies on artificial intelligence (AI), philosophies, and anthropologies of technology;

Eduardo Viveiros de Castro argues that the three intelligences he identified are not found in watertight compartments , but rather are intertwined and mutually dependent modes of existence that shape the essence of the experience of being on Earth. In his approach, these intelligences do not operate in isolation, but in constant interaction, contributing to the construction of a comprehensive worldview.

Additionally, he suggests that the discipline of anthropology should not limit its scope solely to the analysis of human cultures. On the contrary, he argues that it has the capacity to transcend conventional boundaries and explore the interactions between a diversity of forms of intelligence in the cosmos. This implies recognizing the connection between human beings, animals, plants, and other components of the natural environment as integral elements of a vast cosmic fabric.

Therefore, I adopt the perspective of anthropologist Viveiros de Castro to broaden his approach not only to anthropology, but also to understand the potential of this same reasoning as relevant to the field of design. Understanding how, through people, things, and processes, we can promote a more interconnected and interdisciplinary (or even undisciplined?) understanding of this tapestry that is the relationship between humans, extra-human elements, and the world of which we are a part.