ABSTRACT
Building on Howard Gardner's concept of multiple intelligences, Roberto Marchesini presents the idea of "plural intelligences" to indicate the myriad forms of cognition emerging from different types of adaptation to niches and pressures in the world. A better sense of the plural interfaces and the plural interfaces of interfaces increases our ability to describe hybrid human–animal communities and many types of interspecies interactions. Cognitive plurality means, in other words, that the paths and the specializations taken on by the different species in "knowing the world" have followed totally different adaptive logics, almost as the sensory, locomotor, endocrine, enteric, immune, etc., apparatuses have. Cognitive pluralities, of the different species in primis and then of the different individuals, are the result of a very specific functional performativity of mind, just as specific as the functions of the apparatuses among the various species.
