![]() ![]() This forms the basis for his philosophy of the ecology of mind.įair warning, this book reads more as a collection of musings than straight-up philosophy or science. It is my understanding of his work that he would oppose psychology, cognitive science, and any other discipline that seeks to understand the world in terms of rigid cause-and-effect, because he prefers to describe the world in terms of feedback loops. Although at times his ideas may seem to be on the verge of religious or New Age thought, especially with his references to Shiva and the aesthetic of the world, Bateson is first and foremost a scientist, and his ideas are grounded very firmly in scientific principles, as he explains them in the first chapter. A potentially transformative book if you are interested in learning how evolutionary processes shape the mind!Īs one of the first cyberneticists, Bateson shows how the mind consists of a series of relationships, and goes on to point out that any instance of these same relationships in nature (such as in a plant or animal) may also be said to exhibit mind. ![]()
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