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Kristen French is a senior editor at Nautilus. She has worked in science journalism since 2013, reporting and writing features and news for publications such as Wired, Backchannel, The Verge, and New York Magazine. She has a masters degree in science journalism from Columbia University.

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Orit Peleg is an associate professor at the University of Colorado Boulder and external faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. She studies how insect swarms communicate and what their collective intelligence can teach ours.

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<a href="https://nautil.us/author/jonathon_1e">Jonathon Keats</a> is an experimental philosopher, writer and artist. He is the award-winning author of six books on subjects ranging from science and technology to art and design. He is a research associate at the University of Arizona, a visiting scholar at the University of Colorado Boulder and a senior fellow at the Berggruen Institute. His newest book is <a href="https://berggruen.org/library/a-field-guide-to-more-than-human-governance">A Field Guide to More-Than-Human Governance</a>.

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Rémi Lamontagne-Caron is a doctoral candidate in clinical science and biomedicine at the Université Laval in Quebec.

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