Steps to an Ecology of Mind

Bateson, G. (1972). Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology. Chandler Publishing.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1972

Link

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo3620295.html

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systems_cybernetics

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• Feedback
  • Bateson's "Steps to an Ecology of Mind" explores this extensively, showing that ecological and social feedback loops often interact to produce surprising behaviors

    This sourceExplores how ecological and social feedback loops interact to produce surprising behaviors (schismogenesis, double bind).

• Second-Order Cybernetics (Second-Order Observation)
  • Gregory Bateson's Steps to an Ecology of Mind (1972)

    This sourceBateson ecology-of-mind epistemological foundation observer-included framework.

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